From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 16 17:49:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pegasus.com (unknown [209.84.70.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBD3515260 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 17:49:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard@pegasus.com) Received: by pegasus.com (8.6.8/PEGASUS-2.2) id PAA16490; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:48:28 -1000 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:48:28 -1000 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Message-Id: <199903170148.PAA16490@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey "Re: P-II vs K6-2" (Mar 17, 11:30am) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: P-II vs K6-2 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org } } Whether you get better performance out of a small, fast L2 cache or a } larger, slower one depends entirely on the application. It would be } really interesting to see some figures here instead of theory. } } Greg } -- Don't forget to define `small'. I don't consider 64MB to be small. The old rule of thumb used to be that 64MB is enough for 80% hit rate, on average. Diminishing returns come pretty quickly after that. How big is the Celeron cache? Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message