Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:37:29 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: problem with cache size |
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Pawe? Kowalski wrote:
> I'm using RedHat Linux 7.2 with compiled kernel 2.4.25. > My serwer has one cpu "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz" with HT flag so > there are two processors in cpuinfo. > The processor has 2MB cache but `cat /proc/cpuinfo` shows only 16KB.
That's cosmetic. The CPU will still use all the cache, since this is controlled entirely by hardware and the OS has no influence.
> When I try to use 2.4.17 kernel, there is 2048KB cache but cpuinfo shows > only one cpu :) > I don't know where I should send my question, maybe You could help me. > I'll be very thankful for any answer.
If you have the time, you could try to find the changeset that caused the problem and send Marcelo a patch ;)
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