A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I recently was given four Sparc 10s - I'm adding disk and memory to > them and plan on making one of them my major server. I have the > machines but nothing telling me anything about them. They have two > different CPU cards. They are all TMS390 CPUs but two have a second > large black heat sink with "cache controller" written on them.
You need to visit http://www.sunhelp.org, and ask on the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] The web site and the people on the mailing list are incredibly knowledgeable about this sort thing. > Anyone know if: > > 1. It makes a difference which cards I use for multiprocessing. > > 2. Which one would be better. dual cache controller, one of each, dual > no cache controller. > > 3. If they all have cache controllers and some just have a fancy heat sink. > > 4. A good place to find out things like this. > > 5. Is there any advantage to putting more than two processors in one machine. Depends on what the machine is going to do. > 6. Is there a "cheap" source for additional processors. Not that I know of - Sun hardware is expensive. Period. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
