[Info-vax] Itanium CPU configuration conundrum

[John Santos]

In article <h86slt$gpd$1 at pcls6.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com 
says...> 
> VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> 
> >>It appears that the magic bit got set on one 6600 and not the other.
> 
> >And this "magic bit" is switched on and off how?  
> 
> EFI Shell "cpuconfig" command.  That's about all I know.
> 
> >The PAK is for 4 sockets and 8 units (CPUs), and thus is causing a 
> >%LICENSE-F-EXCEEDED, attempted usage exceeds active license limits
> 
> Which brings up an interesting point.  Should twice as many "CPUs", each
> with half the power, really be charged at double the units (CPUs)?

I got the impression somehow that the licensing was supposed to be
"per core" and not "per virtual core", and it shouldn't make any
difference to the licenses if you have hyperthreading turned on or off.

Either I was misled, or there's something wrong with your licenses.

Or there may have been an LMF patch that affected this.

-- 
John Santos
Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc.