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voidmain:
On another note, even CPUs/boards are hot swappable on some systems. I have pulled CPU boards out of sun servers (they are hot plug drawers) and replaced CPUs and memory on the fly.

billy_gates:

quote:Originally posted by void main:
On another note, even CPUs/boards are hot swappable on some systems. I have pulled CPU boards out of sun servers (they are hot plug drawers) and replaced CPUs and memory on the fly.
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this is only on multiprocessors machines right?

pkd_lives:

quote:Originally posted by Billy Gates: Mac Commando:


this is only on multiprocessors machines right?
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If you can put your CPU into a park state and restart it from a park state then it would be technically possible to hot swap a single processor system.

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by Billy Gates: Mac Commando:


this is only on multiprocessors machines right?
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Of course. If you pull your only processor you are pretty much done processing.     In fact On most Sun hardware they use at least 2 CPUs per CPU board. If you only had one CPU board you couldn't hot swap it. You have to have more than one board. The last one I did had 5 boards (10 CPUs).

[ December 09, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

choasforages:
yeah, i remember seeing those things, what kind of kernel architecture  does sun use, monilithic? mirco? exo?

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