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To: grok who wrote (61277)	6/10/1999 2:56:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1572776

KZ, re<problems with Direct Rambus is "cache trashing"> This sounds like a BS. The term "cache trashing" is usually attributed to cache itself, and is related to it's level of associativity, replacement policy and such. It has very little to do with main memory except that the performance degradation is proportional to how slow that memory is. One of possible meanings of that remark could be that the Rambus is not very effective in handling the random memory traffic resulted from that "cache trashing" activity (otherwise normal and usually unavoidable on certain large workloads).