Subject: enabling IIci cache card
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Steven Campbell <scampbel@astral.magic.ca>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/16/1996 23:28:55
I've recently built my own kernel that enabled the IIci's L2 cache.
I have noticed that video performance in X is noticeably faster.  I turned
on the OpaqueMove option in .twmrc to get an idea of how much quicker the
video was.  When I did this before on my IIci, the video was noticeably
delayed and could not keep up to the cursor movement at all.  With the
caches enabled, the video is much closer to being able to follow the cursor
around the screen when you drag a window.
Some serious side effects though are that none of the systat functions,
such as iostat, vmstat, pigs, work reliably, and they all give a memory
allocation error.
And on boot, I get savecore: can't find device 0/0.
But the troubles seem worth it.  The machine is noticeably quicker.

Just a little status report.

Steve