debian:~$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/l2cr
0x00000000: disabled, no parity, 2MB, clock disabled, flow-through burst SRAM, copy-back, 0.5ns hold

How to enable l2 cache in Pegxlin on pegasos ?

maybe l2cr=0x80000000 as boot argument will enable it.

tokai, i already have this argument as boot argument

dunno. i'm a linux newbie... but they told me this will enable L2 cache.

tokai@debian:~$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/l2cr
0x80000000: enabled, no parity, 2MB, clock disabled, flow-through burst SRAM, copy-back, 0.5ns hold


works here.

ok, my fault...i had a stupid extra zero in the
boot argument, now l2 cache is enabled

but i didnt notice any noticable speed increase,
maybe its just that linux is slow and bloated.

yep, screenrefresh is slow and diskspeed is slow. maybe some configuration problem. But for example I have faster net speed with linux than with morphos. So it's maybe a good idea to download big ISO's with linux and not with MOS. :)

but anyway:

tokai@debian:~$ uptime
23:44:43 up 9:49, 1 user, load average: 1.32, 0.80, 0.57


regards,
tokai

yeah, net is much faster here too, and internet pages loads
faster too, huge ones with lots of small pics like newspaper
sites takes ages in ibrowse, but in linux it loads pretty fast.

i've setenv'd to run linux as autoboot now, we'll see how long
it lasts :)

By default Ibrowse uses it's internal 68K image loaders and those are
far from optimal. Set it to use external loaders (Datatypes)
there are also other options on ibrowse that help a lot (load images
to Fast ram and ignore Free-chip), but it's still 68K code and
noticeable slower than Voyager on same page.


For Disk speed. check that Ide DMA is on. Many distros defalt to
CPU data move and that slows down system.

thats not a good way to compare "internet speed". on my peg miami transfers 3,5megabytes per second, so its not system/stack that throttles speed.

advanced browsers like mozilla/opera utilize http/1.1 features to speed up loading of multiple small pictures (multiple requests per connection, pipelining) and boosts loading of html by requesting compressed transfer (decent servers send zipped html then).
I didnt check, but I wouldn't be surprised if Ibrowse didnt have these features. You can 'fix' it though by using modern personal proxy (privoxy from sf.net might help)