[Simh] Workaround for idle
Thomas Pfau
pfau at nbpfaus.net
Wed Jun 20 06:27:26 EDT 2007
bsupnik at comcast.net wrote:
> The idle detector in the VAX is declaring idle when it shouldn't. In addition, device timeouts are causing idles when they shouldn't.
>
> You can work around the problem, FOR VMS ONLY, by changing the parameters of the idle detector, as follows:
>
> sim> d idle_ipl 8
> sim> d idle_wait 1000
>
This works great. The machine that used to take up to 20 minutes to
boot now boots in under two minutes. Thanks.
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