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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: GCC
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:13:13 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211161713.17@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Nov13.163233.2288@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <9211153510@umunk.GUN.de>
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- In article <9211153510@umunk.GUN.de> udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
- >Linus Torvalds (torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
- >[...]
- >: I have to agree with Rick that MWC would probably want to wait for
- >: coherent 4.1 before releasing gcc - that should fix the two first
- >: problems. I don't know about the coherent cache: is it hardcoded,
- >: dynamic, memory size dependent, or what?
- >
- >The cache is dynamic. I first run 4.0 with 2MB, then 5MB and now with 8MB.
- >On every memory upgrade I noticed, that the number of buffers for the
- >disk cache increased. Also performance of disk I/O is better now, because
- >of the large cache.
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- That's correct. But I believe that it also can be patched in the kernel.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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