<div>I've had issues with the idle on 3-7-3 running BSD4.x on windows... I just simply replaced it's idle code with the code from 3-7-1 and it seems far more reliable...</div>
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<div>RENO doesn't seem to idle at all under 3-7-3.... </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Marc Chametzky <<a href="mailto:marc@bluevine.net">marc@bluevine.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Out of curiosity, I looked into why I wasn't getting idle functionality<br>to work on my VAX running on Solaris.<br>
<br>My first issue was that the gcc optimizer appears to have been messing<br>up the code in sim_idle(). When I removed "-O", the calculations worked<br>right, but idle still wasn't working.<br><br>If I'm reading the code right, it looks as though it's a limitation of<br>
SIMH on Solaris. In vax_stddev.c, clk_tps is set to 100 (ticks/sec),<br>which means 10 ms per tick. Unfortunately, the granularity of<br>nanosleep() (as determined by clock_getres()) is also 10 ms, which means<br>that it can't idle because the granularity isn't small enough to wait<br>
for the next VAX clock tick.<br><br>Does this make sense?<br><font color="#888888"><br>--Marc<br></font>
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