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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:09:16 -0800
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On 4 Apr 99, at 13:39, Brian Coe wrote:

> ....  The issues with Celerons is that they only have half the cache
> (everybody knows that) that will cause the system to swap to disk
> much more often.

  Hang on a sec!

  The "L2 cache" provides faster access to recently-used items in RAM.
The "disk cache" ("vcache") allocation in RAM provides fast access to
recently-used items from disk.
  L2 size has nothing to do with swapping to disk.


David G

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