From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Sep 11 12:29:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA23336 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:29:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA23310 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:29:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA01311 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:29:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:29:17 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "Cacheable memory"?? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, We're split here between whether to go with the new AMD K6-2 or the Pentium II as our new standard build. The pros and cons are pretty simple: Pentium II: Less L2 cache (512K max) Good, stable ASUS mainboards available (we've had excellent results with Asus so far) 100MHz bus AMD K6-2: Up to 1MB L2 cache No time-tested mainboards available (the Asus model only does 384M and only offers 512K cache) 100MHz bus Now how much difference does the L2 cache make in a typical web/mail/news server? What is meant by the term "cacheable memory"? ie: "with 512K cache you have 64MB cacheable memory" or "with 1M cache, you have 128MB cacheable memory". I've also heard things like "this motherboard can only cache 64MB of memory"... What does it mean? What's the real world impact? Thanks, Charles Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message