How to find size of Cache memory i.e. L1 and L2

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05-29-2004, 01:40 PM	#1
elanvital LQ Newbie Registered: May 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 1 Rep:	How to find size of Cache memory i.e. L1 and L2 Hi, 1)I need to know if there is a C function which could find out how much cache memory(i.e. L1 and L2 Cache) is available in a processor. I want to find the cache(L1 & L2) availability from a C program. 2) How can I find the access time of L1 cache, L2 cache and main memory? Thanks. Last edited by elanvital; 05-29-2004 at 02:32 PM.

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