Hi,

I've just been playing with my kinetic card, I've made the kernel not use any 
of the on board ram (note it corrupts the console cursor)

Anyway the test was how long it takes to do make configure for gmake 
(configure scripts hammer the pmap rather badly on rpc)

pkgsrc and obj dir's mounted off remote machine.  reboot done between, and 
make clean also done so both worked off freshly extracted and patched source. 
Test conditions were near identical as I can do at near midnight :)

Anyway figures are:
	with onboard ram	kinetic only		%
real		293.22		204.40			70
user		29.99		21.37			71.3
sys		225.60		151.14			67

So it looks like there's a boost to be had from the kinetic :)

If anyone wants a copy of the kernel shout up, and I'll upload one, oh it's 
based of -current (note that the diff isn't ready for the real world, it's a 
HACK, if looks for any memory blocks that aren't kinetic ram and shuffles the 
dram blocks down in the bootconfig)

Tommorrow I plan to compare this to the new bootloader (it makes things feel 
slower, but I want something more substantial than just a feeling ;)

Cheers,
Chris