From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 26 04:17:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA04309 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 04:17:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.MCESTATE.COM (vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM [206.171.98.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA04304; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 04:16:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by mail.MCESTATE.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA01580; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 04:14:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 04:14:41 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" cc: Tom Samplonius , "Vnotchenko S.S." , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [H] Optimal computer for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199702260610.WAA29342@MindBender.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > > Always use parity RAM on servers, especially if you are buying > >everything from scratch. > > EDO doesn't give you much of a improvement if your motherboard supports > >pipeline-burst-cache. > > My guess is that it doesn't, since the cache is built into the CPU... > :-) Actually, from what Rodney Grimes had told me, the cache built into the CPU is the L1 (Level 1) cache while the L2 cache is the cache on the motherboard, with Pipeline Burst Caching, it will give like the same improvement EDO ram will give with a non-PBC Cache but if used in conjunction with PBC, the increase isn't that big to make much of a difference. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]