[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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