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- From: kbvan!dave@uunet.UU.NET (Dave Van Allen)
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- Subject: Re: Performace degradation under SCO
- Message-ID: <9212231739.AA05259@kbvan.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:39:48 GMT
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- > Quoting Bela Lubkin:
-
- > > I wrote:
- > >
- > > Prove this by yanking the top 16MB out, and seeing if you still have
- > > the problem. Don't let swapping (if any) fog your results.
- > >
- > > Fix == EISA
- >
- > Ok, but pulling the top 16MB will also fix the not-enough-cache problem
- > that's *really* making the system slow. ;-}
- >
- > >Bela<
- >
-
- If you don't have the cache, then yanking the extra memory is your only
- recourse anyway. Right?
-
- > ..........................................SCO UNIX 3.2v4/ODT 2.0 knows
- > whether your host adapter/bus combination can DMA above 16MB. It goes
- > to a lot of effort to make sure that things that might need to be DMA'd
-
- I have seen cases where it "guessed" wrong. The AST Premium 386 with the
- 486 upgrade module is one. If more than 16 meg of memory is installed
- when you access past the 16MB limit, the box DMA's down and find its way
- not into so magical buffer pool, but onto the scsi drive. AST confirms
- this as a problem.
-
- You posted, a good explaination of the cache problem along with the
- tag ram explaination a while back. Any chance you have that again?
-
- I'm not quite sure that I am ready to agree that doing DMA above 16MB
- (on an ISA bus) is as quick as you suggest:
-
- > Let's just suppose that you're
- > running at 33MHz and that it takes 20 cycles per byte (a wildly
- > pessimistic estimate) to copy memory. So to copy a 512-byte buffer
- > takes 512*20 = 10240 cycles, or 10240/33 uSec, or .31 milliseconds.
-
- But, I find it hard to argue with your statement right now. AND, it's
- not often that you err. :-)
-
- Happy Holidays
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