From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 4 19:23:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA09396 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:23:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from george.lbl.gov (george-2.lbl.gov [131.243.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09390 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:23:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jin@george.lbl.gov) Received: (from jin@localhost) by george.lbl.gov (8.8.8/LBL-ITG) id TAA07952; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:22:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:22:33 -0800 (PST) From: Jin Guojun (ITG staff) Message-Id: <199803050322.TAA07952@george.lbl.gov> To: grog@lemis.com, jonny@coppe.ufrj.br, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: TX Chipset and more than 64M Ram Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg (grog@lemis.com) wrote: :>> :>>>> What kind of problem could I expect from FreeBSD if I run a TX :>>>> chipset motherboard with 128M RAM ? :>>> :>>> Your performance will suck. :>> :>> Your performance will drop instead of increasing. :> :> This is controversial with what you strongly agree at below. : :Sorry, I don't understand that. Do you mean contradictory? I still :don't see any contradiction. Nothing contradictory. Just unclear statement could be argued. You mix things together. You said "drop" here, and said "great" down below titled with -- ... test of a number of motherboards which can cache more than 64 MB in... and put a group chipset there start with Intel 430TX. I did not get a clear picture what you try to depict. Actually, using TX chipset with more than 64 MB memory will not drop the perofrmance. It just will not get efficiently used as I am using right now. :) :>>>> This chipset can only cache :>>>> 64M. Anything other than performance ? Is it possible to force :>>>> FreeBSD to use the low 64M preferentially ? :>>> :>>> Take the top 64M out. :>>> :>>> Seriously, it's going to cost you less to replace the board with one :>>> wearing an HX chipset than the time that the TX board will waste you. :>> :>> The German magazine c't, which I personally greatly respect, did a :>> test of a number of motherboards which can cache more than 64 MB in :>> their issue 4/98. The chipsets tested were: :>> :> ??????????????????????? :>> Intel 430TX ??????? : :Does "???????" mean "why test the TX if it's a test of motherboards :which can cache more than 64 MB?"? If so, it's for comparison's :sake. The test itself didn't include any TX motherboards. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message