From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 4 01:14:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA13108 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 01:14:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cc.uq.edu.au (root@dingo.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.2.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA12908 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 01:09:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shocking@zzshocki.dialin.uq.net.au) Received: from zzshocki.dialin.uq.net.au (zzshocki.dialin.uq.net.au [203.101.242.9]) by dingo.cc.uq.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA12960 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 19:08:56 +1000 (GMT+1000) Received: from zzshocki.dialin.uq.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zzshocki.dialin.uq.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA00504 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 19:18:39 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from shocking@zzshocki.dialin.uq.net.au) Message-Id: <199801040918.TAA00504@zzshocki.dialin.uq.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Memory bandwith and an interesting article Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 19:18:38 +1000 From: Stephen Hocking Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk It basically talks about how the ordering of memory reads can affect the read rate of Intel 486/pentium CPUs., becuase of the read buffer's inability to support mutiple outstanding read transactions. http://www.intelligentfirm.com/membench/index.shtml Stephen