Subject: Re: Large CPU caches & NetBSD
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: fission <fission@mb.sympatico.ca>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/12/2000 21:57:56
Hehehe, that reminds me of the time a computer of mine had a faulty cache.
I disabled it and wasn't prepared for the supreme performance loss.  =)  I
didn't realize how much difference some L2 cache can make.

--fission

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Brett Lymn wrote:

> Depending on how much cache you had before will determine how much of
> a change you see.  Going from no cache to a little cache can make a
> very big difference but the effect tails off after a while, which you
> probably knew already :-)
> 
> -- 
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> Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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