[Simh] Excessive paging of the real machine running SIMH - VAX

[Villy Madsen]

Hmmm...

O/S was VMS and my earlier posting about 64 MB working fine is incorrect.

Sometimes it runs fine.  I suspect that the issue is how much Real memory that
W/XP is allocating to
The virtual machine - Is there some way of grabbing more ???

I have set outlook to generate plain text vice Rich Text

Villy 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregg C Levine [mailto:hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net] 
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 17:11
To: Villy.Madsen at shaw.ca; simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: RE: [Simh] Excessive paging of the real machine running SIMH - VAX

Hello!
I just finished reading your message there. And of course a response to it, from
another member. So that we can reproduce your problem here and elsewhere, can
you identify whose operating system you're running there? 

For example I know of two such for the VAX, namely VMS and of course NetBSD.
Of the two I would prefer VMS, but NetBSD would also be a useful test candidate
as setting it up is far more annoying then VMS, especially since someone
familiar with how the process works could conceivably set a VMS image up in a
few minutes time, whereas NetBSD can confuse even the most involved of users.

Oh and is it possible to not use HTML mail? I don't mind it here, but the 'droid
who handles archiving the posts does. On one list I sometimes belong to, it will
even return just such a post with a rude complaint.
--
Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net "The Force will be with you.
Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com
[mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On
> Behalf Of Villy Madsen
> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:13 PM
> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: [Simh] Excessive paging of the real machine running SIMH - 
> VAX
> 
> Greetings all
> 
> I have noticed for a while now that startingup SIM-H - VAX results in 
> a
great deal  pagefile
> io on the real machine (XP-Home & Pro, 1GB real).  This always happens
just after the
> "Write bitmap has successfully completed." message, and sometimes on
shutdown - just
> before the halt message.
> 
> The vax is configurred for 128 mb & task manager shows the VM size @ 139M.
It wasn't
> an issue on the home machine - it didn't take all that long to do, but 
> on
the laptop it took a
> long time.  Task manager showed almost 400K of page faults - and there 
> was
continous real
> disk activity for a long time.
> 
> Ini file follows
> 
> load -r ka655x.bin
> attach nvr nvram.bin
> set cpu 128m
> set rq0 ra92
> set rq1 ra92
> set rl disable
> attach rq0 vaxsys.dsk
> attach rq1 vaxdata2.dsk
> attach xq eth2
> ;Set console telnet=1000
> set cpu conhalt
> dep bdr 0
> boot cpu
> 
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Villy
> 
> Villy Madsen
> www.members.shaw.ca/villy.madsen 
> <file://www.members.shaw.ca/villy.madsen>