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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (83314)	12/17/1999 10:17:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583586

Hi Tenchusatsu; You wrote: Page hits are rare in servers. Therefore, keeping a bank open has very little performance benefit (it could even hurt performance a little). Having a multitude of banks in servers, however, is a good thing because when you have heavy loads of traffic from multiple sources, there's less of a chance that a given bank will be overloaded with multiple accesses at once. I agree with the first part, that servers typically precharge rows after access. The second part, I do not understand; I suspect that you intended to write something else. As long as all bursts are ended with a precharge, there isn't any disadvantage (or advantage) to accessing any particular bank with multiple accesses. So no overloading problem... -- Carl