From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 5 03:42:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA04547 for current-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 03:42:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from europa.humberc.on.ca (melange@europa.humberc.on.ca [142.214.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA04542 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 03:42:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from melange@europa.humberc.on.ca) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by europa.humberc.on.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA06642 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 06:45:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 06:45:23 -0500 (EST) From: Bob K To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: memory out of range??? In-Reply-To: <199711051107.VAA00275@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > One minor problem (not related to the bounce problem): P-II processors > > don't cache above 512MB. > > Is this addressed by the (rumoured?) PII's with 1024K caches? I could be wrong about this, but I thought that the amount of memory that is cachable is dependant upon the chipset that the motherboard is using, rather than the processor itself. Or is this different now that the L2 cache is located in the chip (cartridge)?