From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 14 06:16:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA10109 for current-outgoing; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 06:16:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk (vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk [130.209.240.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA10104; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 06:16:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609141316.GAA10104@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: from hawaii.dcs.gla.ac.uk by vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk with LOCAL SMTP (PP); Sat, 14 Sep 1996 14:15:44 +0100 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler), michaelh@cet.co.jp, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, jhs@freebsd.org, sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VM/kernel problems? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:12:12 PDT." <199609131612.JAA00510@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 14:15:40 +0100 From: Simon Marlow Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rod Grimes writes: > The default value could still be 64K incase none of the cache sizeable > chipsets are found, but in my experience the only things that ever had > 64K or 128K caches on them are old 386 boards and some of the earlier > 486 boards. Thus if CPU >= I586 your going to have a 256K cache.... What about laptops that don't have a cache at all? If it doesn't hurt too much, then fair enough, but otherwise we still need a way to fiddle the setting at boot or kernel-compile time. Cheers, Simon -- Simon Marlow simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk Research Assistant http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~simonm/ finger for PGP public key