From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 14 20:27:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA26060 for current-outgoing; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 20:27:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA26055; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 20:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.7.5/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id DAA12753; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 03:26:48 GMT Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 12:26:48 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: Simon Marlow , jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, jhs@freebsd.org, sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VM/kernel problems? In-Reply-To: <199609141728.KAA04566@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 14 Sep 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > I really doubt that this cache coloring is going to have much effect on > machines without external cache, infact now that I think about it a little > it should not matter what address patern is giving to external memory, it > just won't effect performance. It's not what address pattern it gives, but how it distributes the hot addresses over the cache. The overhead should be negligible. Regards, Mike Hancock