On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:14:05PM +0100, Sander Marechal wrote:
> Sun has donated a server to my FOSS project (www.officeshots.org). It
> has an UltraSparc IIIi processor and 8 GB of RAM. Below is the output of
> /proc/cpuinfo:
>
> cpu : TI UltraSparc IIIi (Jalapeno)
> fpu : UltraSparc IIIi integrated FPU
> prom : OBP 4.22.19 2006/09/06 23:41
> type : sun4u
> ncpus probed : 4
> ncpus active : 4
> D$ parity tl1 : 0
> I$ parity tl1 : 0
> Cpu0ClkTck : 000000005ee3fe00
> Cpu1ClkTck : 000000005ee3fe00
> Cpu2ClkTck : 000000005ee3fe00
> Cpu3ClkTck : 000000005ee3fe00
> MMU Type : Cheetah+
> State:
> CPU0: online
> CPU1: online
> CPU2: online
> CPU3: online
>
> I have two questions about how to best use this machine. First off, do I
> need an SMP kernel for this machine? cpuinfo only lists a single
> processor, but it does mention "CPU0-3 online". Wikipedia says that this
> processor is single-threaded.
Well, that cpuinfo up there lists four processors 1.6GHz each (convert
the clock tick number from hexadecimal :) so you want SMP, and you actually
already have it in that kernel, otherwise it wouldn't have printed the
above information.
As for virtualization, you could probably use OpenVZ, though I haven't
personally tried it on sparc, googling says people have used it.
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