thanks ali! apparently the output was being piped to mgrid.out file.

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Ali Saidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Jun 2, 2008, at 10:47 PM, nathaniel jones wrote:
>
>  i've been trying run the spec benchmarks in the default timing simple cpu.
>> i tried running mgrid and what i get so far after 3 hours is
>>
> It appears as though you're using an atomic cpu, not a timing one.
>
>>
>>
>> command line: ./build/ALPHA_SE/m5.opt tests/run.py
>> long/92.mgrid/alpha/tru-64/simple-atomic
>> Global frequency set at 1000000000000 ticks per second
>> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb #0 on port 7000
>> warn: Entering event queue @ 0.  Starting simulation...
>> warn: Increasing stack size by one page.
>> warn: ignoring syscall sigprocmask(1, 1073070158, ...)
>> warn: ignoring syscall sigprocmask(3, 0, ...)
>> warn: ignoring syscall sigaction(11, 4831387520, ...)
>> warn: ignoring syscall sigaction(5, 4831387520, ...)
>> warn: ignoring syscall sigaction(8, 4831387520, ...)
>> warn: ignoring syscall sigaction(6, 4831387520, ...)
>> warn: ignoring syscall sigaction(15, 4831387520, ...)
>> warn: ignoring syscall sigaction(3, 4831387520, ...)
>> warn: ignoring syscall sigaction(2, 4831387520, ...)
>> warn: setsysinfo: ignoring ieee_set_fp_control() arg 0x11ff91f98
>> warn: ignoring syscall setrlimit(3, 4831387592, ...)
>> warn: Increasing stack size by one page.
>>
>> does increasing the stack size really take that long? or is this
>> indicative of an error?
>>
> It doesn't take long at all, the stack size was increased and the execution
> of the program was immediately continued. Is completely expected that the
> stack with grow, the warning is simply there to let you know that another
> page of memory was consumed by the stack.
>
>
>>
>> also, should i be concerned about the syscalls that are ignored in this
>> and the other benchmarks?
>>
> Generally no, if we set them to be ignored (as opposed to causing a panic),
> we're pretty certain that they won't alter the behavior of most programs.
> The only time they would is if the program needed to take something like FP
> trap to be correct (while it's possible to write such a program, it's not
> clear why one would exist) or a program that needs to send signals to
> itself.
>
> The runtime of the spec benchmarks is dependent on the input set that
> you're using. If you're using the standard input for spec benchmarks
> starting from the beginning and running to completion you should expect
> running the benchmarks in M5 to takes days if not weeks.
>
> Ali
>
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