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To: rudedog who wrote (42766)	4/6/2001 1:01:28 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 64865

I expect we'll hear soon enough. I haven't seen much technical detail on precisely what the problem was, and what they did to fix it. I doubt they disabled prefetch across the board. JMHO. Charles Tutt (TM)

To: rudedog who wrote (42766)	4/6/2001 1:04:53 AM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Disabling prefetch or turning of caching all together? Turning of caching is a huge performance hit, prefetch I'd be suprised at that kind of hit. But I don't know the details of what's going on with the Sun situation, so I should probably not poke fun at the 5% hit. It was the smugness with which a 5% hit was supposed to be an end-of-the-world kind of thing that provoked me into my tirade. P.