Re: Allocating memory to a subsystem -- WEB400

Hi Pete,

Yeah, I was expecting to need a newer base system to cash in on the
new pricing. Anybody know what it costs for a hard drive and stick of
memory in these new systems? When they announced the machines I went
out to the website and added one to my "shopping basket" and came up
with a price of $12k total for what I needed (entry level "Express").
Wouldn't it rock if they came up with a way to have a "hobbyist"
version where you could get the hardware and "IBM i" for $3k? I think
we would see a lot more people having them in their basements and thus
a lot more usage of the platform vs. decline.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Aaron,

As I recall from the presentation at Common (or a discussion later) , I
think the new pricing "equality" applies to Power 6 systems only. So,
unless you have a 570 (which I think got Power 6 first) you won't see a
savings.

My 520 lease is coming up for renewal and I am going to replace it with
a blade (JS21 I think). It will be nice to get plenty of RAM and Disk
at "street" prices for a change.

Pete

Aaron Bartell wrote:
> Thanks Joe! I had no idea it was that straight forward. Or at least
> the way you described it I should be able to easily test this out on
> my dev box. Am I looking at this wrong or is there only a max of 10
> pools that can be created? (i.e. looking at the CHGSBSD command).
>
> Here is a semi-related question: With the new POWER hardware pricing
> can I buy a stick of memory for a lot less now? I would love it if I
> could get a 1GB stick of memory for $200 or something vs. the $1000 I
> think I paid.
>
> Thanks again,
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Aaron Bartell wrote:
>> > Matt, I will have them check the authority thing you brought up (good
>> > idea), and if that doesn't work we will put Apache into verbose.
>> > Also, I did a brief search to see if I could determine how to allocate
>> > memory specifically to a subsystem and came up empty handed. Do you
>> > have some specific keywords, documents or URL I could look at?
>> >
>> This is essential for any web applicaiton, and also for anything running
>> a JVM - JVMs do not work and play well with i5/OS memory management.
>> Anyway, look at the "storage size" component of the POOLS keyword on the
>> CRTSBSD command. By specifying an integer value, you will assign the
>> much physical memory to the pool. This memory is dedicated to that
>> subsystem (and thus, not available to other subsystems).
>>
>> Joe
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