Re: L2 Cache problem

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Mon Dec 16 2002 - 14:21:58 EST

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On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 01:56:09PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
> > my dmesg will be online at http://paxl.no-ip.org/~paxl/dmesg.txt if somone mind.
> > Another fuzzy thing .. compiling my kernel normaly ( -j 1 ) take 30min
> > and when I make it with -j 2/8/16 it take 25min, I think this is due to
> > my L2 cache problem but that not normal, if somone have an idea.. I
> > should be realy interested.
> sounds like you've got your l2 turned off in the bios to me.

2.4 right up until .21pre1 has a bug in the cache sizing routine.
It should be fixed now.

Dave

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