From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 27 16:53:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12485 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:53:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (daemon@smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA12403 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:53:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19170; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:52:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd019082; Mon Jul 27 16:52:35 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA06351; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:52:31 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199807272352.QAA06351@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: New LINT options: what is VM coloring? To: dyson@iquest.net Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:52:31 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dfr@nlsystems.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199807272305.SAA02258@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Jul 27, 98 06:05:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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