Hi,

I have a K6 III 450 on a board with 2MB L2 cache (or L3 cache), 
and found improvements only when using more than 128MB Ram 
compared to the same board with only 512KB L2 cache. However 
the impovements were not human noticable only benchmarks 
showed improvements. AFAIK the size of the cache will only enlarge 
the max. cachable memory region.

mike

On 5 Apr 2000, at 13:36, Jon Lindgren wrote:

> Will a large CPU cache result in a noticable (I don't expect build
> times to cut in half, but I'd expect a _small_ change) change in
> NetBSD's performance?  I've managed to get my hands on some PPro
> 200MHz 1mb cpus, and I was just thinking about things like how often
> the cache is flushed, how other things might affect the cache usage. 
> Even better, does anyone have any good references where I can read
> about this (perhaps specifically relating to NetBSD)?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> -Jon
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