Subject: Re: VAX now runs multicpu!
To: Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/30/2001 23:47:16
> In article <20010530203056.A249@antioche.eu.org>,
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:16:11PM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > > I just got a VAX 8350 with 3 CPUs to use all three processors.
> > > I have tested it a little, and it seems to work quite fine :-)
> > > It shouldn't be too hard to make it running on some funnier
> > > machines, like the 8800 and the 6000 series.
> > >
> > > The VAX 8350 system is probably the slowest multiprocessor system
> > > that NetBSD will ever support; each CPU does about 2VUPS (~2MIPS) :-)
> >
> > Cool ! I think this is worth a message to -annouce, or at last advocacy :)
>
> Yes! Please include top(1) output for doubters ;-)
>
Well, I don't have that new top which prints which processor, but anyway:
load averages: 0.77, 0.61, 0.28 09:42:47
11 processes: 8 sleeping, 3 on processor
Memory: 2476K Act, 156K Wired, 38M Free
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
38 root 49 0 108K 368K onproc 0:05 74.31% 16.46% top
37 root 31 0 132K 352K onproc 0:51 26.59% 7.86% bc
32 root 10 0 444K 92K sleep 0:01 9.83% 3.56% sh
36 root 28 0 132K 352K onproc 0:05 9.17% 3.03% bc
31 root 10 0 24K 268K sleep 0:03 5.12% 1.86% time
29 root 10 0 444K 136K sleep 0:01 4.85% 1.76% sh
35 root 10 0 24K 268K sleep 0:00 5.03% 1.66% time
28 root 10 0 444K 80K sleep 0:01 0.00% 0.00% sh
1 root 10 0 248K 64K sleep 0:01 0.00% 0.00% init
33 root 10 0 444K 136K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh
11 root 10 0 444K 312K sleep ??? 0.00% 0.00% sh
(Running two 'echo "2^9999/3^6308" | /usr/bin/time bc')
Note "3 on processor".
-- Ragge