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