Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:33:15 -0800 (PST) | From | "B. James Phillippe" <> | Subject | Undersized L2 cache: any tricks? |
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Greetings,
Some co-workers of mine have put together an x86-based system on which to run Linux, which has 256MB physical memory and 512k L2 cache. The processor is something like an AMDK6 3XXMhz or Pentium equivalent. To no surprise, the system runs slower with the full 256MB than it does with 64MB, I'm guessing due to the undersized cache. The problem is that the mainboard is apparently only capable of 512K of L2 cache. I am not an expert in memory/cache-related stuff, but my guess is that there is no performance solution other than to decrease the physical memory (or get a new mainboard). The kernel is 2.0. Are there any other options?
thanks, -bp -- B. James Phillippe . bryan@terran.org Software Engineer, WGT Inc. . http://www.terran.org/~bryan
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