Re: fake cache

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Mon, 20 May 1996 15:52:52 +0100 (BST)

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> There's this newspaper article about people manufacturing fake cache
> memory chips, and selling motherboards with these things installed.

lmbench will show up such machines as diabolically crap performance.

> It would be nice to have a simple diagnostic to check for this from
> inside linux.

Its not simple to test without an Xray machine.

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