Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 09:12:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> Cc: Steve Sims <SimsS@IBM.Net>, "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SMP P-Pro MoBo - Recommendations? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971023091129.26953D-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971023062813.26349B-100000@terra>
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On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Ron G. Minnich wrote: > for low cost i like the tyan, but it is a shared cache. Works well on > clusters, where shared cache is mostly a win. > ron On the PPro boards, the L2 cache is on chip, so can't be shared. This was an issue on Pentium motherboards, though, and the biggest reason the PPro's do better in SMP environments.
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