Re: 740 - 12-way Trivia

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It has been my experience that when a CPU fails (and there's more than
one!) the box complains a lot but keeps on a-goin.

So my vote is that you now have an 11 way.  I believe that on systems
with more than 4 CPUs the display on the panel can indicate activity on
diferent sets of processors. Is it possible you are 'seeing' activity on
CPUS 5-8 or 9-12?

 - Larry

"Haase, Justin C." wrote:
> 
> Seeing if anyone knows the answer to this one, since it seems to have
> stumped IBM.  We have a 740 12-way which is stating that one of the
> processors has failed.  IBM has identified it as processor number 1.  The
> display on the machine shows activity on the processor, there's no system
> attention light, the box works fine - no apparent performance hit.  We're
> slated to have it replaced in a week and a half, but the question is this:
> if the processor does indeed fail, will it take the machine down or just
> lock itself out, and we'd be the proud owners of an 11-way?  Thanks in
> advance for your help.


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