Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 9 Jan 1997 23:27:20 -0500 (EST) | From | Jon Lewis <> | Subject | Re: Memory deallocation problems |
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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Jake (not the snake) Messinger wrote:
> And one other thing. I have 96 megs on a triton II board witht he intel > 430vx chipset. SOmeone on #linux said it wont cache past 64megs. First of > all, is that true, 2nd what exactly did he mean, 3rd, should I be > concerned with it, 4th, is there a better motherboard I should get?
Don't believe everything you read on IRC. He was thinking Triton I. Triton II will happily cache lots more than 64mb if you have enough tag. On a Tomcat I|II|III (popular Triton II board), you can cache up to 64mb by default, or 512mb if you buy/install an extra tag chip.
If you had 96mb on a Triton I, the last 1/3 of your RAM would not be cached, and if you actually used that RAM, things would possibly slow down.
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