Re: Virtual I/O Caching Alpha/Oracle

In article <slrn4ghkes.jc039g.AI26_at_a400.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de>, AI26_at_a400.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de (Lemke) writes:
> Sorry about this followup but we are rather ignorant here (our
> doc wall is grey). If I do a $ sh mem/cach/fu I get:
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> A member of this cluster does not have Virtual I/O Cache capability.

> A400>
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> To me this seems to mean our VIOC is not working at all. Is this
> because we failed to enable if (if so, how do we enable it?) or
> because we are running a mixed cluster (the 5.5 systems are
> VAXen, the rest Alphas):

It's because some nodes in your cluster are running a version of VMS too old to allow inter-system cache co-operation. If you upgrade the VAX systems to (say) 6.2 the cache will be enabled.

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