On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Seth Morabito wrote: > * On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:20:48PM +0200, Arpadffy Zoltan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am so happy that thanks to Mark's master build I finally have a > > stable system used through the network. > > > > ...but there are still some fine tuning issues that, unfortunately > > could not find any reference in the manuals. > > > > 1. what is the proper method enabling of the sim_idle_enab flag? I > > have tested the "set cpu idle" command but the CPU is still in 100% > > usage > > With the stock 3.8-1 release, you'll need TWO lines (both of these are > required!): > > set cpu idle > set cpu idle=ultrix > > There seems to be a bug that causes the simulator to say "Invalid > argument" after the second line, but the idle flag is correctly set > anyway. Do a "show cpu" at the "sim>" prompt and you should see > something like: > > sim> show cpu > CPU, idle enabled=ULTRIX, 64MB, HALT to SIMH
You need the vax-idle patch from http://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/Unofficial%20Patches/3.8.1/ for idle to work properly for all the supported operating systems. With this patch I can run a VMS-cluster of several VAXen on the same host with good performance. Also very _very_ nice is the tuntap patch for native tap support. No more taptap hacks. Very much more straight forward to set up networking using bridging on hosts that support tun/tap virtual interfaces (Linux, *BSD etc). Peter _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
