Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:52:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dyson@iquest.net Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dfr@nlsystems.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New LINT options: what is VM coloring? Message-ID: <199807272352.QAA06351@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199807272305.SAA02258@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Jul 27, 98 06:05:17 pm
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> But - but - but, the L1 cache is small!!! Is our terminology mixed-up? > > On X86en, L2 cache is the big one. I thought that on an Alpha, the > L3 cache is the big one. I don't know how one would fit the working > set into a 16K or even 128K cache?!?!?!? I can understand fitting > the working set into a 1M -> 4M L3 cache though :-). Maybe DEC hired coders from outside instead of bringing them over from their VMS division, where memory is free... 8-). What they call each of the caches is pretty standard, I think. Maybe it was a misprint in their white paper. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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