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Date:      Sat, 14 Sep 1996 14:15:40 +0100
From:      Simon Marlow <simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler), michaelh@cet.co.jp, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, jhs@freebsd.org, sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VM/kernel problems? 
Message-ID:  <199609141316.GAA10104@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:12:12 PDT."             <199609131612.JAA00510@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> 

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Rod Grimes writes:

> The default value could still be 64K incase none of the cache sizeable
> chipsets are found, but in my experience the only things that ever had
> 64K or 128K caches on them are old 386 boards and some of the earlier
> 486 boards.  Thus if CPU >= I586 your going to have a 256K cache....

What about laptops that don't have a cache at all?  If it doesn't hurt
too much, then fair enough, but otherwise we still need a way to
fiddle the setting at boot or kernel-compile time.

Cheers,
	Simon

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