[rescue] RS/6000 board ID
Jonathan C. Patschke
jp at celestrion.net
Wed Feb 13 03:05:02 CST 2002
> The way POWER4 systems are organized is that they have two cores on each
> chip. Each core has 512kB/512kB level 1 cache. The module has an 8MB (or
> is it 10MB?) level 2 cache for both cores, and the processor board (with
> two POWER4's) has 128MB level 3 cache.
Uhm. Damn. They don't screw around, do they? I have servers with less
memory than that.
So, is main memory optional? Can you just bootstrap the kernel into the
cache? :)
--Jonathan
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