Thanks to
Stan Horwitz <stan_at_thunder.ocis.temple.edu>
"Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-884-0646" <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
"ram.rao" <ram_at_ini.dec.com>
My original question:
Does any one know the command, console or DU, which shows the size of
the cache on a AlphaStation 600 cpu board?
Dr. Tom Blinn wrote:
> If there is one, it would probably be "show config" in the SRM console, but
> whether the console on that system sizes the cache and reports its size, I
> do not know. A more likely place to find the information would be in the
> marketing documentation for the system, such as the Systems and Options
> Catalog for the period in which the system was actively sold, or things such
> as the owners guide that came with the system. For most system models, the
> cache size is constant, and the cache is configured by the power up code
> that is called the "SROM", not by the console firmware. The UNIX operating
> system cares even less about the cache size, and as far as I know, there is
> no command you can use (or kernel data structure you can examine) to find
> out the cache size.
>
ram.rao gave a valuable pointer:
> Run sys_check on your system, and it will tell you the cache size along
> with a million other things about your system:
> ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/IAS/sys_check/sys_check.tar
>
> Sys_check is a massive ksh script, so if you are interested, you can get
> into its guts to determine how it figures out the cache size.
>
Received on Thu Apr 23 1998 - 04:56:37 NZST