Celeron 2GHz Cache Detection?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday February 20, 2003 @09:50PM from the matching-what's-reported-with-what's-really-there dept.

EAJoe asks: "I have small problem with one Celeron 2GHz machine. Linux kernel 2.4.18-24.7 doesn't seem to switch L2 cache on! This CPU apparently _has_ 128K of L2. There is nothing about L2 in the logs, and /proc/cpuinfo shows an L1D size of 8K instead. Of course I have enabled L2 in BIOS settings (the motherboard is an ASUS P4S533-E, by the way). The CPU overclocks easily up to 3.5 GHz, running stable at 3 - it seems that cache is really switched off. At 3 GHz g++ compilation times are similar to Athlon XP 1800+ machine. I don't have windows on this computer to check this out, but Intel DOS utility shows a Celeron 2000 w/128k L2, also there is '128K' written on the CPU's die. Any suggestions?"

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A Suggestion for cliff... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-21 11:57 · Score: 0, Funny

Cliff, I have a suggestion. How about, when you get a question from someone, read it, do a quick 10 second google search for the answer, and if you find the answer, don't post it! Great concept huh!?

Then, instead of putting the lame question on SLASHDOT for cryin out loud, just email him the answer that you found in 10 seconds!

-Anonymouse

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