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Date:      Sat, 13 Jan 2001 08:07:23 +0100
From:      Michael Bretterklieber <mbretter@inode.at>
To:        hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Athlon Thunderbird 700 w. Asus K7M Motherboard vs FreeBSD 4.2
Message-ID:  <3A5FFEAB.76657F27@inode.at>

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Hi,

David Jones schrieb:

> Is your L2 cache turned on for all memory?
>
> The K7M BIOS does not enable L2 caching for anything other than base memory.
> With the cache off, the system feels like a 200 MHz Pentium.

The speed of the system was like a 200MHz Pentium before I made the
BIOS-upgrade. Now it is fast on Win98 and Win2k (1771 points with
3DMark2000).
On FreeBSD its like I work over a slow network, keyboard clicks are
delayed,
etc.

>
>
> Try executing the following:
>
> /usr/sbin/memcontrol set -b 0 -l 268435456 write-back
>

I tried it, no effect.

>
> Replace that big number with the amount of memory you have, in bytes.
>
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