[HECnet] KLH10 not idling host CPU

Hi Al, On Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 8:18 PM, Alastair Boyanich wrote: The output of SHOW VERSION using the github codebase will help explain more about why or why not idling may not be working on your host system. The current code will make a best effort to achieve idling, but it may not be possible depending on capabilities of the host platform. Idling needs clock ticks and minimum sleep times on the host platform to be less than 10ms in order to provide VAX system idling. This is necessary since the simulated VAX systems have 10ms ticks which have no chance of being reasonably delivered if the host doesn't support short duration sleeps and granularity of host system time keeping less than 10ms as well. Your NetBSD kernel may have a relatively large clock tick. The kernel could be built with a small enough clock tick and then idling would work. SHOW VERSION will display details to understand this: sim> show version MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Beta Simulator Framework Capabilities: 64b data 64b addresses Threaded Ethernet Packet transports:PCAP:TAP:VDE:NAT:UDP Idle/Throttling support is available Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) support RAW disk and CD/DVD ROM support Asynchronous I/O support (Lock free asynchronous event queue) Asynchronous Clock support FrontPanel API Version 12 Host Platform: Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 Simulator Compiled as C arch: x64 (Release Build) on Mar 4 2018 at 21:14:41 Memory Access: Little Endian Memory Pointer Size: 64 bits Large File (>2GB) support SDL Video support: SDL Version 2.0.4 PCRE RegEx support for EXPECT commands OS clock resolution: 1ms Time taken by msleep(1): 1ms OS: Linux mark-VirtualBox 4.4.0-112-generic #135-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 19 11:48:36 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux git commit id: f6e806df The MicroVAX I, MicroVAX II and MicroVAX 3900 will be built with support for a QVSS is the host build environment has libSDL2 available. The vax-mp stuff twisted around the core simulator framework too much to end up getting merged. - Mark