[rescue] When it comes to cache - I want as much as possible!

[Mike Nicewonger]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, you wrote:
> Geaorge,
> 
> Granted this is a totally different arena (x86, not
> SPARC arch.), but I had occasion to try and re-purpose
> an old P90 box as a thin client running Linux on
> Friday. As I was trying to get through some hairy
> video problems, I disabled the 256K cache.
> 
> It made a profound difference, *easily* 15-20%
> performance hit, just doing the install...
> 
Many early Pentiums had big issues with the cache and had to be turned off just
to work at all. I am not suprised by the speed increase you saw.

Mike N