Hello All , I am noticing a VERY High cpu with JUST simh running and it
does not reduce over time . Any ideas ? Hopefully everything needed is below .
Tia , JimL
*** Exiting with this configuration never returns from the below
writing buffer .
sim> exit
Goodbye
NVR: writing buffer to file
*** the TOP output below is with simh sitting at the sim> prompt no boot has
been issued .
top - 15:03:32 up 1 day, 21:10, 2 users, load average: 0.97, 0.44, 0.20
Tasks: 107 total, 1 running, 106 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 99.7%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1012484k total, 935692k used, 76792k free, 175564k buffers
Swap: 8388604k total, 608k used, 8387996k free, 304496k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
14162 vaxuser 20 0 692m 29m 5076 S 99.6 2.9 2:34.66 vaxX
...snip...
sim> sh ver
VAXStation 3900 (KA655) simulator V4.0-0 Current
Simulator Framework Capabilities:
64b data
64b addresses
Threaded Ethernet Packet transports:PCAP:TAP: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 4.8.2
Simulator Compiled as C arch: x64 (Debug Build) on Apr 15 2018 at
18:06:09
Memory Access: Little Endian
Memory Pointer Size: 64 bits
Large File (>2GB) support
SDL Video support: SDL Version 1.2.15
PCRE RegEx (Version 8.39 2016-06-14) support for EXPECT commands
OS clock resolution: 1ms
Time taken by msleep(1): 1ms
OS: Linux ns4 3.10.17 #2 SMP Wed Oct 23 16:34:38 CDT 2013 x86_64 AMD
Opteron(tm) Processor 6376 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
on VMWare 6.5
git commit id: c8beee2d
git commit time: 2018-04-15T12:53:29-07:00
vaxuser@ns4:~$ cat /home/vaxuser/bin/vaxX.ini
;
; Setup Logging point for vax(simh) errors and what not
;
set log /home/vaxuser/LOGS/vaxX.log
;
; Set Memory size and idle the cpu
;
; SET CPU EXTEND ; No longer functional/needed .
SET CPU 512M
SET CPU IDLE=VMS
SET CPU MODEL=VAXStation
;
; LOAD the cpu binary ie: the Vax emulator
;
LOAD -r /home/vaxuser/VAX-DISKS/ka655x.bin
;
; Define a NonVolatileRam location
;
ATTACH nvr /home/vaxuser/VAX-DISKS/vaxX-nvram.bin
;
; Define some disk types and sizes
; RQ0 is first disk on controller DU(a)
;
;SET RQ0 RA92
SET -L RQ0 RAUSER=8380080
ATTACH RQ0 /home/vaxuser/VAX-DISKS/vaxX-vms-rq0.dsk
;
; RQ1 set to be a RA92 ~= 1.5GB
;
SET RQ1 RA92
ATTACH RQ1 /home/vaxuser/VAX-DISKS/vaxX-vms-rq1.dsk
;
; Set RQ2 as a cdrom type rrd40
;
SET RQ2 RRD40
ATTACH RQ2 /home/vaxuser/VAX-INSTALL-MEDIA/VMS-7_2-ODS-cdrom.iso
;
; Set some parameters for the DH(u|v)11
;
set VH ENABLE
attach VH 65000
set VH lines=8
set VH0 MODEM
set VH0 HANGUP
;
; Disable some unused devices
;
SET CR DISABLE
SET LPT DISABLE
SET DZ DISABLE
SET RL DISABLE
SET TS DISABLE
SET RY DISABLE
SET TQ DISABLE
;
; Setup and attach networking
;
;set debug stderr
SET XQ MAC=08-00-2B-33-44-55
set xq type=delqa
ATTACH XQ tap0
;
; Set break mode .
; Note: ^E will always get you to SIM> prompt .
;
set cpu conhalt
;set cpu simhalt
;
; Show the config
;
show config
;
; To enable auto boot in SIMH .
;
;dep bdr 0
;
; Start emulator .
;
;BOOT CPU
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