it will show a nice graph showing your memory latency. you'll see a big jump at the L1 cache size, and another big jump at the L2 cache size.
my ancient article on linux benchmarking (as in 4-year old article) delved into this quite a bit.
On 9/30/05, Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there a way of benchmarking CPU L2 cache on a live system?
I have added a 512 MB DDR400 stick to my system - Celeron D "320" (2.4
Ghz/256 KB L2/ Socket 478) on a VIA PM800 chipset. This is because,
when I run some Java projects I have more than 300 MB swap. I just
bought it this morning and is doing a memtest at home at the moment.
:)
Now I thought - will my small L2 cache affect my performance? I'm not
really keen on buying a new processor since the Pentium Prescotts are
pretty obsolete compared to AMD's offerings. I'm hoping to afford a
Socket 939 Opteron by next year :)
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