Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 10:11:52 +0200 (SAT) From: rv@groa.uct.ac.za (Russell Vincent) To: smp@csn.net (Steve Passe) Cc: peter@spinner.dialix.com, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel XXpress - some SMP benchmarks Message-ID: <m0v0NvE-0004vdC@groa.uct.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <199609092107.PAA27929@clem.systemsix.com> from "Steve Passe" at Sep 9, 96 03:07:42 pm
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Steve wrote: > we tried alot of different settings, nothing noticable. the Intel BIOS doesn't > give one alot of choices, it doesn't even let you enable/disable cache (at > least that we could find!). Note that the XXPRESS differs from many boards > in that it has seperate cache sections for each CPU. Again, I'll get into > the "less code" issue in the mailing specific to this test. Sorry, I thought I had mentioned it to you. I did eventually find an option to disable the cache completely, but it didn't help with the problems we were having. I was amazed at what a difference it makes to system performance, though - felt like I was working on a slow 386! -Russell
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