Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:32:14 +0800 | From | yangboy@math ... | Subject | Re: Ouch! Powerleap adaptors, Celeron 466's with no Cache |
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Sorry, some clarifications.
# > Powerleap says that there is a way to activate the L2 cache on # > the Celerons. In fact they have a CPU Control Panel software for this # > purpose, but it is only for use with Windows. Can someone tell me how # > this L2 cache activation might be effected in Linux? THANKS ... # # first of all, what makes you think your systems don't have L2 activated? # afaik, they boot up in all-active mode. you could tell mainly by observing # performance: without L2, all modern processors are deadly slow.
But it *IS* deadly slow. A kernel compile took some 30 minutes, about what it did on a Pentium 133. Celeron 300A's (not overclocked, but in a SCSI system) takes about 4 minutes, with the same board and the old PPro200/512's about 5 minutes. With PII/400's a little < 3 mins., so...
The other thing that made me uneasy was that there is line in phoenix BIOS bootup process which says `Processor Patch failed'. But that's all that seemed unusual ...
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