Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:22:37 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: L2 cache sizes different: BIOS bug? |
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cat@zip.com.au writes: > Richard Gooch wrote the following: > > > > Hi, all. I've just discovered, to my horror, that a dual PII machine > > here has different L2 cache sizes for each CPU. The boot CPU (#1) is > > reported to have 0 kB whereas the other CPU (#0) is reported to have > > 512 kB (as expected for a PII). This is with 2.1.126. I get the same > > with 2.2.0. > > My box isn't dual cpu but here's two problems I've had witrh the PII-350 > on my Aopen MB: > > 1. The PII-350 suddenly becomes a PII-175 and linux decides it doesn't > like my HD. > 2. My PII-350 suddenly forgets where it put it's cache. > > Each of these problems show up on boottime -of the machine- so I suspect > it's a BIOS bug in my case. Have you checked the stats given to you by > your BIOS about both your CPUs? For me it's definately not Linux that's > at fault.
Turns out it was a hardware problem. First thing this morning I swapped the CPUs. The problem went from CPU #1 to CPU #0. QED. Time to abuse Digital/Compaq. Grrrr.
Regards,
Richard....
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