From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Subject: Re: 386/40 cache upgrade ? Date: 7 Jul 1993 18:28:15 GMT
In article <21ck6j$nou@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> kk@cs.tu-berlin.de (Kolja Kaehler) writes:
| I'm wondering whether it would be useful to upgrade my 64kb cache to 256kb ?
| Would this give noticably better performance (under linux) ?
Almost certainly not. However, you do need to upgrade the cache if you
go beyond 16MB. On most boards you need to upgrade the tag RAM to have
greater addressability. You can probably *measure* the improvement with
<16M, but you are unlikely to *feel* it, which is really why people upgrade.
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