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From: corbin@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Steve Corbin)
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Subject: Re: Cache hits?
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Date: 3 Nov 88 18:55:15 GMT
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 In article <790@cmx.npac.syr.edu> anand@amax.npac.syr.edu (Anand Rangachari) writes:
 >
 >  The question then is: Is there any way at all by which I could measure
 >the cache hit ratio.

There is no way to measure any cache statistics in software on the Multimax.
You will have to take measurements of various hardware signals and conditions
on the processor card and interpret the results.  A reasonably sophisticated
logic analyzer would work if you had the schematics and knew what to look for.
Stephen Corbin	    UUCP:	{bu-cs,decvax,necntc,talcott}!encore!corbin
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