At 2:26 PM +0000 1/5/10, Mark Wickens wrote:
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 06:24 -0800, Bob Armstrong wrote:
>Anyway it seems that whenever I run Personal Alpha any Simh machines I
>have running completely pause until I shutdown the Alpha simulator has
>anyone else had this problem ?
Isn't Personal Alpha a version of the Charon-AXP emulator? I've never
used Personal Alpha, but I am using the free version of Charon-AXP and I can
tell you that, unlike simh, it has no OpenVMS idle detection. Charon will
always use 100% of whatever CPU(s) it's running on, regardless of what the
emulated system is doing. That makes it difficult to run Charon
concurrently with other simulators unless you can afford to dedicate
separate CPUs to each one.
Bob
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... and significantly bumps up your electricity bill to boot.
How does it perform on something like an Atom processor? I've been thinking about building a system with an Atom 330 CPU for SIMH, KLH10 and E11.
Zane
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On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 06:24 -0800, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Anyway it seems that whenever I run Personal Alpha any Simh machines I
have running completely pause until I shutdown the Alpha simulator has
anyone else had this problem ?
Isn't Personal Alpha a version of the Charon-AXP emulator? I've never
used Personal Alpha, but I am using the free version of Charon-AXP and I can
tell you that, unlike simh, it has no OpenVMS idle detection. Charon will
always use 100% of whatever CPU(s) it's running on, regardless of what the
emulated system is doing. That makes it difficult to run Charon
concurrently with other simulators unless you can afford to dedicate
separate CPUs to each one.
Bob
--
... and significantly bumps up your electricity bill to boot.
Anyway it seems that whenever I run Personal Alpha any Simh machines I
have running completely pause until I shutdown the Alpha simulator has
anyone else had this problem ?
Isn't Personal Alpha a version of the Charon-AXP emulator? I've never
used Personal Alpha, but I am using the free version of Charon-AXP and I can
tell you that, unlike simh, it has no OpenVMS idle detection. Charon will
always use 100% of whatever CPU(s) it's running on, regardless of what the
emulated system is doing. That makes it difficult to run Charon
concurrently with other simulators unless you can afford to dedicate
separate CPUs to each one.
Bob
Anyway it seems that whenever I run Personal Alpha any Simh machines I
have running completely pause until I shutdown the Alpha simulator has
anyone else had this problem ?
Dan
Wow that sounds... odd. Check your CPU affinity, for the exe's.... It almost sounds like something deadlocking on the libpcap.........?
I'm just guessing, I'll have to fire up personal alpha & simh to take a looksee.
2010/1/4 Bob Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com>:
I just started Multinet, so the link is back up.
Now we have PDXVAX and MISER up, but we're still missing PETEY and ZARQON
(and of course the poor GORVAX, but that's expected).
Bob
Hi everyone,
Hopefully a few people will read this. But it's not very exciting, My
machine is back up again. I had tried it a few times but the multinet
link was down.
I forgot to mention that Petey is dead PSU has gone, I am using a simh
machine to replace it at the moment. It is called slimer.
The main reason it's down is because I have been using another machine
with Personal Alpha to try and netboot a Dell Itanium machine. I have
not had much success so far, but I am still trying.
Anyway it seems that whenever I run Personal Alpha any Simh machines I
have running completely pause until I shutdown the Alpha simulator has
anyone else had this problem ?
Dan
I just started Multinet, so the link is back up.
Now we have PDXVAX and MISER up, but we're still missing PETEY and ZARQON
(and of course the poor GORVAX, but that's expected).
Bob
And GORVAX is off to the land of the borken for now, in Amsterdam myself so unable to dedicate too much time to fixing it.
Sampsa
On 4 Jan 2010, at 16:45, Zane H. Healy wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Bob Armstrong wrote:
... with a new DSL modem installed. Only the links to DUSTY and STUPI
came up - I don't know what happened to everybody else.
PDXVAX had crashed at some point in the past, and I hadn't bothered to bring
the link back up. I just started Multinet, so the link is back up.
Zane
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Bob Armstrong wrote:
... with a new DSL modem installed. Only the links to DUSTY and STUPI
came up - I don't know what happened to everybody else.
PDXVAX had crashed at some point in the past, and I hadn't bothered to bring
the link back up. I just started Multinet, so the link is back up.
Zane
I use simh all the time. If I can help I will be around most of the weekend.
My only task this weekend is dealing with the snow on the driveway. So far we have had 5+ inches. They expect another 5-7 more. The snow blower went through this last pass in 90 minutes.
-Steve
From: Sampsa Laine [mailto:sampsa at mac.com]
Sent: Sat 1/2/2010 14:31
To: Steve Davidson
Subject: Re: [HECnet] We're (sort of ) back up again.
It's not a VMS issue per se I think - something to do with SIMH and the network interface. I might have a play later.
Sampsa
On 2 Jan 2010, at 19:06, Steve Davidson wrote:
Sampsa,
If you need any help with this - let me know. I'm around all weekend. Most of this time will be spent hacking!!!
-Steve
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Sampsa Laine
Sent: Sat 1/2/2010 13:16
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [HECnet] We're (sort of ) back up again.
I've replaced the server that ran my bridge and GORVAX, unfortunately there's something REALLY broken with GORVAX that I just can't figure out right now (and don't really have the time to, either). Anyway, RHESUS and CHIMPY are up, CHIMP should be up RSN. GORVAX will be down for a little while longer, as will the Fidonet mail gateway. Sampsa
