Re: [Simh] Throttling and this release

2012-07-08 Thread Stephen Hoffman
Circa Sat, 7 Jul 2012 15:00:38 -0700, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm m...@infocomm.com posited: This is exactly the goal. IPL 1 is not used anywhere in the NetBSD kernel so this the transition to IPL 1 can be used as the idle trigger for that OS. Solely as VAX trivia and not as a solution for

Re: [Simh] Throttling and this release

2012-07-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2012-07-08 14:22, Stephen Hoffman wrote: Circa Sat, 7 Jul 2012 15:00:38 -0700, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm m...@infocomm.com posited: This is exactly the goal. IPL 1 is not used anywhere in the NetBSD kernel so this the transition to IPL 1 can be used as the idle trigger for that OS.

Re: [Simh] Throttling and this release

2012-07-08 Thread David Brownlee
On 7 July 2012 23:00, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm m...@infocomm.com wrote: On Saturday, July 07, 2012 at 1:31 PM David Brownlee wrote: I'm assuming the switching of IPL to 1 and then immediately back is OK for simh in this situation - could you confirm? This is exactly the goal. IPL 1 is not

[Simh] Throttling and this release

2012-07-07 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Was the throttle function included as part of this release of SIMH? I finally managed to get NetBSD/VAX installed, but it managed to corral the entire workload of the host at 100% of the CPU. I want to throttle it back to about 75%. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This

Re: [Simh] Throttling and this release

2012-07-07 Thread David Brownlee
On 7 July 2012 07:00, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Was the throttle function included as part of this release of SIMH? I finally managed to get NetBSD/VAX installed, but it managed to corral the entire workload of the host at 100% of the CPU. I want to throttle it back

Re: [Simh] Throttling and this release

2012-07-07 Thread Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm
On Saturday, July 07, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: On 7 July 2012 07:00, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Was the throttle function included as part of this release of SIMH? I finally managed to get NetBSD/VAX installed, but it managed to corral the entire

Re: [Simh] Throttling and this release

2012-07-07 Thread David Brownlee
On 7 July 2012 20:36, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm m...@infocomm.com wrote: On Saturday, July 07, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: On 7 July 2012 07:00, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Was the throttle function included as part of this release of SIMH? I finally managed

Re: [Simh] Throttling and this release

2012-07-07 Thread Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm
On Saturday, July 07, 2012 at 1:31 PM David Brownlee wrote: On 7 July 2012 20:36, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm m...@infocomm.com wrote: On Saturday, July 07, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: On 7 July 2012 07:00, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Was the throttle