Intel® Memory Latency Checker (Intel® MLC)

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10/7/2025

Introduction

Intel® Memory Latency Checker (Intel® MLC) is a tool used to measure memory latencies and bandwidth, and how they change with increasing load on the system. It also provides several options for more fine-grained investigation, where bandwidth and latencies from a specific set of cores to caches or memory can be measured as well.

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Detailed Description

An important factor in determining application performance is the time required for the application to fetch data from the processor’s cache hierarchy and from the memory subsystem. In a multi-socket system where Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is enabled, local memory latencies and cross-socket memory latencies will vary significantly. Besides latency, bandwidth also plays a big role in determining performance. So measuring these latencies and bandwidth is important to establish a baseline for the system under test and for performance analysis.