[plug] AMD64 Debian Box3N :D

[Nick Bannon]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 06:02:10PM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> What kind of app's benefit from that kind of cache size?
> 
> My most cpu-loading task is video encoding, and increased cache over
> 128MB (sempr0n) makes no difference at all.
[...]

That probably depends on the specifics of your encoder and encoding
options - the motion estimation step is pretty demanding on your cache
so perhaps you're _still_ blowing your cache after the upgrade, or
perhaps your options were well suited to the Sempron in the first place.

I really notice the cache in bzip2's - on small machines gzip (gzip -6) is
faster than gzip -9, which is faster than bzip2 (bzip2 -9; 900KiB blocks).
With 1MiB or more cache, gzip < bzip2 < gzip -9 .

Nick.

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