Debian Linux Server - Size of L1 and L2 cache [duplicate]

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finding L2 cache size in Linux

I am using Debian Linux Server and want to know the size of L1 and L2 cache. Can anybody help me, how to get that ?

Answer 1

dmidecode should give you this info.

For my CPU, for instance, it shows the following output:

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 7, 19 bytes
Cache Information
    Socket Designation: L1-Cache
    Configuration: Enabled, Not Socketed, Level 1
    Operational Mode: Write Through
    Location: Internal
    Installed Size: 64 KB
    Maximum Size: 64 KB
    Supported SRAM Types:
            Synchronous
    Installed SRAM Type: Synchronous
    Speed: Unknown
    Error Correction Type: Single-bit ECC
    System Type: Data
    Associativity: 8-way Set-associative

Handle 0x0003, DMI type 7, 19 bytes
Cache Information
    Socket Designation: L2-Cache
    Configuration: Enabled, Not Socketed, Level 2
    Operational Mode: Write Through
    Location: Internal
    Installed Size: 256 KB
    Maximum Size: 256 KB
    Supported SRAM Types:
            Synchronous
    Installed SRAM Type: Synchronous
    Speed: Unknown
    Error Correction Type: Single-bit ECC
    System Type: Data
    Associativity: 8-way Set-associative

Handle 0x0004, DMI type 7, 19 bytes
Cache Information
    Socket Designation: L3-Cache
    Configuration: Enabled, Not Socketed, Level 3
    Operational Mode: Write Back
    Location: Internal
    Installed Size: 3072 KB
    Maximum Size: 3072 KB
    Supported SRAM Types:
            Synchronous
    Installed SRAM Type: Synchronous
    Speed: Unknown
    Error Correction Type: Single-bit ECC
    System Type: Unified
    Associativity: <OUT OF SPEC>

From this you can see I have an L1 cache of 64kb, an L2 cache of 256kb and an L3 cache of 3072kb.

Answer 2

you can use lshw to find cache information. if not installed, you should be get it from the repo.

Answer 3

Looks like this is a duplicate of

finding L2 cache size in Linux

In both cases, however, dmidecode didn't work for me, which makes sense, because it reports BIOS information, which is not always present or accurate. So, best choice for me was:

find /sys/devices/system/cpu/*/cache/index*/size -print -exec cat {} \;
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index0/size
32K
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index1/size
32K
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index2/size
6144K
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cache/index0/size
32K
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cache/index1/size
32K
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cache/index2/size
6144K

Answer 4

x86info is a decent tool for getting processor info if you are running an i386/amd64 box.