Date: Tue, 01 Oct 96 22:51:08 PST From: BRETT_GLASS@infoworld.com To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk), freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: H/W recommendation Message-ID: <9609018442.AA844232194@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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> This isn't quite the way cache works. A board with 512K of cache > won't hold 512K of code, even if that were necessary -- most of the > code in the kernel or any other large program seldom gets run. I never stated that the cache would (or should!) hold the whole kernel. It will, obviously, hold some data and user code. But it's a time-tested rule of thumb that, to a first approximation, your cache should equal the size of the kernel. (In the case of UNIX, the kernel should be trimmed to include only the devices that are actually present).
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