From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 08:59:08 -0600
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] freebsd v. plan9 - profile results (long)
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On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Matt Pidd-Cheshire wrote:

> rob pike suggested that the cpu cache might be disabled under plan9,
> if so please to tell me how i can enable it; i'll gladly hack the
> kernel source (mine) if i can get a little guidance, and a bit of
> sleep.

that seems very unlikely to me. It's pretty hard to disable them nowadays 
and I have not yet found a BIOS that would do such a foolish thing. Plus, 
with cache disable EVERYTHING would be slow, as in waiting many many more 
seconds than you would expect for the boot. 

Why did you use kfs and not fossil, I wonder?

ron