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Date:      Thu, 16 May 1996 10:09:14 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: EDO & Memory latency
Message-ID:  <199605161709.KAA17364@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199605160309.JAA29241@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at May 16, 96 09:09:12 am

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> I have just tried lmbench and the numbers it gives are looking
> slightly strange for me. It shows memory latency upto 500ns while
> I have 60-ns EDO memory in a Pentium/75 box. Okay, its external
> clock is 25MHz, this gives 40ns, one wait state, it gives another 40ns,
> it gives 80ns, but why the overhead is over 400ns ? 

25 * 3 = 75

Multiply access latency by 3.

Then multiply the whole deal by 100/60 because you probably didn't
set HZ to 100.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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