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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!moocow.cs.uh.edu!wjin From: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD platform Date: 3 Jul 1994 21:11:44 GMT Organization: University of Houston Lines: 12 Message-ID: <2v79ig$s8u@masala.cc.uh.edu> References: <2uacoc$gfi@reuter.cse.ogi.edu> <2ukb2g$r7b@huey.cc.utexas.edu> <Cs19IJ.B07@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <2uo9ju$12b@reuter.cse.ogi.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: moocow.cs.uh.edu Keywords: configuration bj@staff.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson) wrote: > The 256K cache is *highly* recommended. I've heard that a DX2/66 is > about 40% faster (wall clock time) with a 256K external cache. The > Pentium supports 512k, and the extra 256K might be worth the $60-100 > you'll pay for it. What I read from an article some time ago was that the cache does not affect any performance on multi-user platforms such as Unix, since most PC boards use *direct mapped* cache. Is there a motherboard which uses 4(or 8) way associative cache ? Woody Jin