Hi,
I have built another little simulated machine:
Name: BITXOX
Address: 7.60
This one simulates a small VAX 11/730 running VMS 5.5. This machine has RSX11/VMS running and the GUEST account has MCR as default CLI. It's a little weird thing I have set up just as a curiosity. If someone pays a visit, please consider it is SLOW, with just 4M of RAM (several processes are swapped out just after startup), and sharing its host (a Rasp-pi) with several other virtual machines...
Username: GUEST
Password:
Welcome to VAX/VMS version V5.5-2 on node BITXOX
Last interactive login on Thursday, 14-MAR-2013 12:29
>@ <EOF>
> pip
PIP>/li
Directory SY0:[GUEST]
14-MAR-13 12:37
BUILD.CMD;1 1. 01-MAR-13 23:20
HELLO.EXE;1 38. C 01-MAR-13 23:22
HELLO.FTN;2 1. 01-MAR-13 23:16
HELLO.LST;2 2. 01-MAR-13 23:21
HELLO.MAP;2 17. 01-MAR-13 23:22
HELLO.OBJ;2 1. 01-MAR-13 23:21
LOGIN.CMD;1 1. 01-MAR-13 23:04
Total of 61./72. blocks in 7. files
PIP>
On 13 Mar 2013, at 18:23, "Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm" <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On 13 Mar 2013, at 17:52, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 03/13/2013 05:41 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
What are the current values in /etc/system?
That's a parameter override file; it won't be in there unless someone
wants to change it from the default.
Is there a man page detailing all the options?
I have no idea. You guys have dug up this info....
Most Solaris folk aren't really accustomed to just rebooting their
machines.
So I guess I fit in? I don't even like rebooting NT 4. ;)
I suggest that you make the change to /etc/system now so you don't forget when you go to shutdown to install the NICs or you'll end up with multiple reboots at that time....
Then again, if your system has trouble rebooting after installing the NICs you won't know if it has to do with the newly added hardware or the change to the OS configuration file .
I'll let Brian be the guinea pig then. ;)
I like to test one change at a time.
- Mark
Speaking of SIMH, anyone try the Alpha emulator in the betas yet?
Is it any good?
Just downloaded the beta sources but can't find a makefile or any docs, anyone got pointers?
sampsa
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 03/13/2013 06:02 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
What are the current values in /etc/system?
That's a parameter override file; it won't be in there unless someone
wants to change it from the default.
Is there a man page detailing all the options?
I believe so.
Most Solaris folk aren't really accustomed to just rebooting their
machines.
So I guess I fit in? I don't even like rebooting NT 4. ;)
Fear. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
Actually most NT boxes don't need to be rebooted unless the user is
stuffing in software.
Oh and Dave? That Solaris box you have has been very helpful, for the
crowd of Cybermen who need a fast machine for their Cyberleader.
Fly? Hmmm. Be careful of your riding companions there's a crowd of
furry individual who need a fast flight someplace.....
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On 03/13/2013 06:02 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
What are the current values in /etc/system?
That's a parameter override file; it won't be in there unless someone
wants to change it from the default.
Is there a man page detailing all the options?
I believe so.
Most Solaris folk aren't really accustomed to just rebooting their
machines.
So I guess I fit in? I don't even like rebooting NT 4. ;)
Fear. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 03/13/2013 05:32 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote:
First of all, Cory...have you tried using Sun's compiler? It kicks the snot out
of GCC for SPARC code generation. I did give you a copy.
I would suggest that this would be a good idea.
I have an old SparcStation which I fire up once every few years to test simh on a Big Endian platform. It has a Linux disk and a Solaris disk (I don't recall the version). I do not have a sun C compiler. The last time I fired it up (more than a year ago) the basic testing worked out fine but I noticed that some things were so slow it was practically unusable. I isolated some slow behavior down to an operation which walked across a 64MB chunk of VAX memory one byte at a time. The 64MB array is stored in a single malloc'ed area. This walk across the 64MB took some 20 seconds, while the same operation on my Windows desktop takes far less than any time I could measure on my watch. My theory was that it was spending all of its time in the alignment trap handler, but I didn't have enough knowledge to dig into the details.
The test case is demonstrated by the following commands:
$ BIN/vax
MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Beta
sim> set cpu 64m
sim> save somefile
The save operation writes the current simulator state to a file.
It sounds to me like you need a fast SPARC, or access to one.
I can give you an account on dev.neurotica.com, which is an
UltraSPARC-T1-based machine running Solaris 10 with Sun's C compiler
installed. Several people are using it for free software projects;
that's its purpose in life.
Let me know if you're interested.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On 13 Mar 2013, at 17:52, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 03/13/2013 05:41 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
What are the current values in /etc/system?
That's a parameter override file; it won't be in there unless someone
wants to change it from the default.
Is there a man page detailing all the options?
I have no idea. You guys have dug up this info....
Most Solaris folk aren't really accustomed to just rebooting their
machines.
So I guess I fit in? I don't even like rebooting NT 4. ;)
I suggest that you make the change to /etc/system now so you don't forget when you go to shutdown to install the NICs or you'll end up with multiple reboots at that time....
Then again, if your system has trouble rebooting after installing the NICs you won't know if it has to do with the newly added hardware or the change to the OS configuration file....
I like to test one change at a time.
- Mark
On 13 Mar 2013, at 17:52, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 03/13/2013 05:41 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
What are the current values in /etc/system?
That's a parameter override file; it won't be in there unless someone
wants to change it from the default.
Is there a man page detailing all the options?
Is it okay if I wait a day or so to add those? It requires a reboot
to do that and i'm planning on taking the system down for maintenance
in a couple days when some NICs get here. I like not having to
reboot multiple times. ;)
Your NICs are on the way; I'd expect you should have them tomorrow or
Friday.
That's what I estimated as well. Thanks.
Most Solaris folk aren't really accustomed to just rebooting their
machines.
So I guess I fit in? I don't even like rebooting NT 4. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 03/13/2013 05:41 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
What are the current values in /etc/system?
That's a parameter override file; it won't be in there unless someone
wants to change it from the default.
Is it okay if I wait a day or so to add those? It requires a reboot
to do that and i'm planning on taking the system down for maintenance
in a couple days when some NICs get here. I like not having to
reboot multiple times. ;)
Your NICs are on the way; I'd expect you should have them tomorrow or
Friday.
Most Solaris folk aren't really accustomed to just rebooting their
machines.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 13 Mar 2013, at 17:45, "Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm" <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On 13 Mar 2013, at 17:38, "Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm"
<Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On 13 Mar 2013, at 16:05, "Cory Smelosky" <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On 13 Mar 2013, at 15:43, "Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm"
<Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On 13 Mar 2013, at 15:04, "Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm"
<Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Speaking of SIMH on Solaris and similar...is SIMH capable of SET
CPU IDLE in zones on SPARC? It looks like 3.9-0 can't.
[...]
Idling for any simulator requires that the host system's clock
tick be <= the size of the simulated system's clock tick. VAX
systems have a clock tick of 10ms.. Idling for simulated VAX
systems works best
if the host clock tick is 1ms.
Windows systems have a user mode programmatically settable clock
tick size (a facility useful for some media playback capabilities)..
On Windows systems simh will set the host's clock tick to 1ms
while a
simulator is running.
We haven't seen programmatically settable host clock tick sizes
on
other platforms.
In general, other platforms have a tick size which can be changed
in some system specific way (which might require building a
kernel
with a desired tick size) or not changeable at
all. This issue comes up often enough that adding how to make
these
system specific
adjustments would be a useful addition to the simh FAQ. Any
feedback on this subject will be welcome.
Ahhh.
"Solaris timing uses a real-time clock that can generate
interrupts at a resolution bound by the processor speed. For
scheduling purposes, it fires every 10 milliseconds. As in Linux,
this is a clock "tick." Note that 2.6 Linux uses a
1000-tick/second clock, as opposed to the 100-tick/second clock
used by Solaris and by previous versions of Linux. User-level
programs on Solaris can program the real
time clock to fire at nanosecond granularity, rounded up by processor
time-- much finer than the clock tick granularity of ten or one milliseconds.
However, the program interface to use the high-resolution timers
is not visible in the DDI/DKI. See clock_settime(3rt) for
user-level details andusr/src/uts/common/os/cyclic.c for details
on high-resolution
timing in Solaris.
Also note that in Solaris, you can change the value of hz or clock
ticks/second by setting hires_tick to 1 and hires_hz to the
desired time in the /etc/system file. The default is
1000 ticks per second. Here's an example:
set hires_tick=1
set hires_hz=10000 <~--- 10000 ticks per second"
Looks like Solaris can set it in user mode, too.
This 'documented' tick rate would seem to meet simh's requirements
without any adjustments.
Does the current simh code work? If not, what does it think the
tick size
is?
I will tell you once I work around ld: fatal: auxiliary filter
option (-f, --auxiliary) is only available when building a shared
object
ld: fatal: flags processing errors
;)
sim> SET cpu idle
Idling is not available, Minimum OS sleep time is 11ms Command not
allowed
Same result as Brian. 11ms instead of 10.
OK. So, now it is time to try and adjust the system clock tick.
What are the current values in /etc/system?
What happens if you change /etc/system to have:
set hires_tick=1
set hires_hz=1000
Reboot and try the simh vax again....
Is it okay if I wait a day or so to add those? It requires a reboot to do that and
i'm planning on taking the system down for maintenance in a couple days
when some NICs get here. I like not having to reboot multiple times. ;)
Sure, but what are the current values in /etc/system?
The keys mentioned above are not currently in /etc/system.
Meanwhile, I've changed the makefile so that it should work on your platform without any modification. Please test the latest from github.
Builds fine now. Thank you.
Thanks.
- Mark
