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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (44625)	1/3/1999 4:30:00 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571039

Tenchusatsu, when you ask AltaVista to search for "Elvis", exactly how much difference is there between 512K and 8MB of L2 cache in the server CPU? When 1,000 corporate users each summon their "to-do" lists at 9:00am, will they still be in cache from yesterday? When salesmen in the field query a 40,000-part inventory, will cache play a role in determining response times? For all the discussion here about latencies, hit rates, etc. has anyone actually replaced a PII server with an otherwise identical Xeon and measured the difference? IMHO, real-world tests are the only ones that count. Craig