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Jon Steele
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I was trying to understand something.I hope someone can help.When I have a partition with 2 cell boards and 4 dual procs ,what happens if the main proc goes down.Does the system automaticlly assign one of the other procs.Could someone shed some light on me on how this all works.

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Jon
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Thayanidhi
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Re: rp7420

Main processor from which partition?
All new series systems has a feature called processor de-allocation. If a processor fails, then that is de-allocated and system would continue.

Is this you are looking for?

Partition is npar or vpar?

Regds
TT
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Jon Steele
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Re: rp7420

That has helped.One other question.Since it is dual procs if one goes down and you only have a one dual proc system does the system de-allocate one proc and allocate the second proc?Or since it is one dual proc does it de-allocate both and shut the system down.

I hope I am asking this correctly,thanks for you help

Jon
timmy b.
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Re: rp7420

Jon,
I know that you understand that these systems are not using just one of their processors. All processors assigned to a partition share the load to one degree or another. If you lose a processor, chances are good that you are going to get a reboot and the system will come back up on it's remaining cpus, minus the the lost one(s).

Now, on a dual core processor module, you may or may not lose both processors if there is a problem in that module. It will depend on where the problem is located. If it's located within a specific core, you may only lose that one cpu. If it's in cache, chances are good that the module will deallocate.

Get the idea? I hope this helps.

Good Luck - Tim
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Jon Steele
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Re: rp7420

Thank you both for you help,I believe I have it now.

Jon
Jon Steele
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Thank you
Jon