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FoldingSolutions Send message Joined: 2 Apr 06 Posts: 129 Credit: 3,506,690 RAC: 0	Message 43710 - Posted: 15 Jul 2007, 11:44:04 UTC Does anybody know why nearly all computers have 976.56KB of "cache" in computer stats? I know full well that not every CPU has 1MB cache. So what "cache" is this refering to? ID: 43710 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

dcdc Send message Joined: 3 Nov 05 Posts: 1832 Credit: 119,688,048 RAC: 10,544	Message 43712 - Posted: 15 Jul 2007, 11:57:47 UTC the boinc detection code doesn't work in the windows version. HTH Danny ID: 43712 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

FluffyChicken Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 1260 Credit: 369,635 RAC: 0	Message 43713 - Posted: 15 Jul 2007, 11:58:21 UTC - in response to Message 43710. Does anybody know why nearly all computers have 976.56KB of "cache" in computer stats? I know full well that not every CPU has 1MB cache. So what "cache" is this refering to? A problem in the Boinc program, Windows I believe causes this. Team mauisun.org ID: 43713 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

FoldingSolutions Send message Joined: 2 Apr 06 Posts: 129 Credit: 3,506,690 RAC: 0	Message 43732 - Posted: 15 Jul 2007, 16:49:46 UTC - in response to Message 43713. But it is something to do with CPU cache? I just wondered this as I thought it meant some kind of cache in the RAM or something!? ID: 43732 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

FluffyChicken Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 1260 Credit: 369,635 RAC: 0	Message 43742 - Posted: 15 Jul 2007, 20:03:23 UTC - in response to Message 43732. But it is something to do with CPU cache? I just wondered this as I thought it meant some kind of cache in the RAM or something!? Yes the level2 cache (or +lvl3 or maybe even 1+2+3+...) it depends what is reported, my linux system reports the lvl2 cache of my P-M as 1024kB https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/show_host_detail.php?hostid=435323 When it's in Windows it just say 976.56KB 'default' value, hence ignore it for windows computers. Look at top hosts https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/top_hosts.php and you'll see 4096KB reported for Linux systems for the quads and the default 976.56KB for windows and Mac. Team mauisun.org ID: 43742 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

FluffyChicken Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 1260 Credit: 369,635 RAC: 0	Message 43743 - Posted: 15 Jul 2007, 20:18:51 UTC hazarding a guess the code is somewhere (for windows) in this lot http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/branches/boinc_core_release_5_10/client/hostinfo_win.C Team mauisun.org ID: 43743 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote