From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 7 14:13:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25164 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 14:13:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24978 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 14:12:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA16287; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 14:12:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 14:12:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Oles' Hnatkevych" cc: All Subject: Re: cacheable memory In-Reply-To: <35CB3F8B.9EBF483F@cki.ipri.kiev.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Oles' Hnatkevych wrote: > Hello! > > since exist motherboards which chache memory up to a certain > amount is there any 'hackers' kernel options to get use of this > deficiency ;-). It's smarter to use uncacheable memory for disk > IO cache and cacheable memory for code, IMHO ;-) Nope, it's a hardware limitation. Sucks, eh? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message