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Re: How much memory do you REALLY have?

Hey, nobody can accuse me of being anti-i5, Trevor :).

I can now!!! You are against what IBM has done with the i5!!! hahaha
So the iSeries needs 80MB for the FSP. That ~could~ be a reason to ask IBM to give you 80MB free, sure. But you have identified the quandary that small companies are in. Why pay a high price for an iServer when you can get the equivalent "statistics" in a cheaper Wintel box? And in the end, the answer is simple - Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) will always be cheaper than the Initial Cost of Acquisition (TCA). If you focus on TCA, you will complain a lot (like you are now). If you focus on TCO, then you will come out on top in the end.
And, if you ~are~ fine tuning, you now know to take 68GB into account when you are sizing the machine pool. You have not lost it, it is just not showing in the numbers on the green screen information. No problem at all!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Pluta" 
Subject: RE: How much memory do you REALLY have?




However, I do
object when things change that negatively impact me without my knowing
it.  After talking extensively with the fine folks at IBM-SERV, it's
become clear that the model 520, at least, requires 80MB for its
flexible service processor, regardless of the number of CPUs or
partitions.  This number is different than previous incarnations of the
box.  The other 68MB are allocated to stop people from breaking their
machines.



All fine and good, but if I'm fine-tuning a machine, that's a healthy
chunk of memory I have to address.  But the fact that the amount seems
to be fixed is a good thing; to lose in effect 15% of every GB of memory
would be a reason to ask IBM to lower the prices just a bit <g>.
However, I'll let you know if that amount really is fixed when I add my
second GB of RAM.

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