Re: Allocating memory to a subsystem

["Aaron Bartell" <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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