[Sunhelp] HW Questions

[bhinz]

ok, the SS10 has 40 MHz processor and the SS5 has a 70 MHz. are these swappable? 
all of my apps are on the 10 and this would be a nice upgrade...

thanks,
brian

>From: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu>
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>Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:25:49 -0800
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian P. Hinz [mailto:bhinz at chipmunk.nsc.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 7:21 AM
>> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: [Sunhelp] HW Questions
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a few questions, mostly hardware related. I'm pretty 
>> new to Sun HW so 
>> plese excuse the ignorance.
>> 
>> 1) I have two boxes at my disposal, a SS10 and a SS5. all 
>> things being equal 
>> (memory, etc.), which is faster? it seems to me that there 
>> are a variety of 
>> different processor speeds that were available.  How do I 
>> determine which one 
>> each machine has?
>
>Well, uhm, all other things aren't equal?  You could have a single SM40 in
>your SS10, and a 170MHz TurboSPARC in the SS5, and the SS5 would be much
>faster using the same ammount of ram and the same disk.  On the other hand,
>if you've got quad 200MHz hyperSPARCs in the SS10, it's going to be a heck
>of a lot faster than the SS5, no matter what processor it has.  I think that
>those machines will respond to the "module-info" command at the OK prompt
>(hit stop-a).  You could also open the boxes and look for the part numbers
>in the SHR.  
>
>> 
>> 2) Each machine seems to use a different type of memory. The 
>> SS5 memory appears 
>> to be normal DRAM, while the SS10 is a rather tall DRAM that 
>> I haven't 
>> encountered before. What is this correct type of memory to 
>> use in each machine?
>
>I always just go to www.memoryx.com or call out memory vendor from work and
>tell them that I need ram for a SPARC whatever.  www.memoryx.com has that
>stuff listed on their website.
>
>> 
>> 3) The SS5 does not have a network card. Can the card from 
>> the SS10 be swapped 
>> if it turns out that the 5 is faster or are there differences 
>> in the bus that 
>> would prevent this.
>
>The SS5 does have a network card, on the motherboard.  Unfortunately, I
>don't see any info in the SHR on the SS5, except one small section in part1.
>It probably has an AUI connector on the back, either a D-sub 15 pin
>connector, or the smaller condensed AUI 26-pin connector, or maybe an RJ45.
>Both machines should have onboard 10Mbit half duplex ethernet.  If you have
>an SBUS ethernet card in the SS10 it can easily go into the SS5.
>
>> 4) Lastly, I am using CAD software on the SS10 right now that 
>> gobbles up memory. 
>> I usually end up running out and swapping large amounts of 
>> memory. Closing the 
>> program does not seem to free up memory so how can I do this manually?
>
>Depends, what OS are you running?  Lots of people complain about this
>"problem" with Linux.  They close some application that was eating up 29MB
>of ram, and they get 2 MB back.  THIS IS GOOD.  It's keeping parts of that
>program loaded into ram until that RAM is needed by something else, thus
>speeding execution of that program if you run it again.  I don't know that
>much about memory management in Solaris, sorry.  If you're hitting swap a
>lot, get more ram.  
>	Greg
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