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From: Elizabeth Barham <soggytrousers@yahoo•com>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs•uml.edu>
Cc: tas@mindspring•com (Timothy A. Seufert),
	langausd@fachschaft•informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Siggi Langauf),
	debian-powerpc@lists•debian.org, linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: "Cache Profiler" ? (was: No cache control on ppc??)
Date: 13 Jan 2002 02:06:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877kqmvfmy.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Albert D. Cahalan"'s message of "Sun, 13 Jan 2002 01:51:58 -0500 (EST)"


Hi,

I recently installed a NewerTech Maxpowr G3 L2-Cache - which is a G3
on a board that fits into one of the L2's ram banks on my Starmax
3000/160. I was ecstatic that the bogomips increased by 187%
(199.47). Recently, though, I heard of someone installing a JoeBoard
into his StarMax 5000 and his bogomips being around 800. He mentioned
something about a "Cache Profiler". It seems that BootX is somehow
able to tell the kernel that there is a G3 in the cache and speed is
increased greatly.

The CPU on the StarMax 3000/160 motherboard itself (what originally
came with it) is a PPC 603e. /proc/cpuinfo shows a 750 - which is good
but the bogomips are nowhere near what this person reported.  I do not
use BootX for I prefer booting straight into Linux with Quik.  Does
anyone know anymore about this and if it's possible to increase
performance more by somehow making the G3 quicker?

Thank you,
Elizabeth


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-13  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201121753510.11140-100000@darkwing.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
2002-01-12 21:39 ` No cache control on ppc?? Albert D. Cahalan
2002-01-13  5:36   ` Timothy A. Seufert
2002-01-13  6:51     ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-01-13  8:06       ` Elizabeth Barham [this message]
2002-01-13 19:36         ` "Cache Profiler" ? (was: No cache control on ppc??) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-01-15  9:17           ` Elizabeth Barham

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