Re: Pentium II looks like a Xeon?

Steve Willer (willer@interlog.com)
Wed, 5 May 1999 16:58:03 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 3 May 1999, Steve Willer wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out some strange behavior on a new dual Pentium II
> Xeon 450. This is stock kernel 2.2.7. Linux seems to think that I'm
> running a Celeron with no cache whatsoever.

Sorry about the subject line. End-of-day messages are dangerous.

If anyone is wondering, it turns out the cache was disabled when we turned
on the "Turbo mode" option in the BIOS. Apparently this is somewhat like
the proverbial red button with a Post-It on it that says "don't press me".
Turning off "Turbo mode" fixed the problem.

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