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Re: Memory



On Tue, 28 Oct 1997 13:47:44, you wrote:

>At 03:18 AM 10/22/97 IDT, Doron Shikmoni wrote:
>>Please scratch my previous mail (re >64M RAM). It must have been the hour..
>>I thought that mem=72M didn't work for me, but actually it did, when coded
>>properly :-)
>>
>>Sorry for the noise
>>Doron
>
>I must add that it is not enougth to have on your lilo config
>mem=xxxM but you will also need to have 512k chache on your main board
>in order to use more than 64mb
Not exacly. You need 512KB cache to actually see a performance *increase* when
you use more than 64MB ...
With 8 bit cache tags, a 256KB cache can cover only 64MB RAM, and any extra
RAM will not be covered by the L2 cache.

>adi
Udi