>>>>> "GA" == Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
GA> I was hoping someone had seen this sort of behaviour before,
GA> and could offer some sort of explanation or advice.
Jesper's reply is probably most on point as to the reason.
I know that recent Opterons use some of their cache to better manage
cache-coherency. I presum recent Xeons do so, too, but perhaps yours
are not recent enough for that?
-JimC
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