Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 21 May 1996 04:37:23 -0400 (EDT) | From | Kevin M Bealer <> | Subject | Re: fake cache |
| |
On Mon, 20 May 1996, Craig J Copi wrote:
> > > > >There's this newspaper article about people manufacturing fake cache > >memory chips, and selling motherboards with these things installed. > > > >It would be nice to have a simple diagnostic to check for this from > >inside linux. (clip)
I'm 98% ignorant here, but if I disable my cache, I get much decreased Bogomips... I assume that Bogomips specifically will only show a difference unless a few K is installed and be exactly the same above that level.
I would say: try using time and some math-intesive toy like gcc or povray and time it several times. If you can disable it in CMOS/BIOS and get no worse results you probably have been taken. (of course run 3 or 4 trials to counter the disk-buffering etc.
(Am I speaking completely out my arse here?)
__kmb203@psu.edu_________________________Debian__1.1___Linux__1.99.6___ "The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language."
|  |