Re: NUMCPU >1 = IEE331A EXCESSIVE DISABLED SPIN LOOP DETECTED

Jeff Sumner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.turnkey-mvs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
With 8 CPU's defined on an 8 core box, I get:


ipl 148                                                                                                               
CPU0000: SIGP Initial program reset (07) CPU0001, PARM 00000000: CC 0                                                 
CPU0000: SIGP Restart (06) CPU0001, PARM 00000000: CC 0                                                               
CPU0000: SIGP Initial program reset (07) CPU0002, PARM 00000000: CC 0                                                 
CPU0000: SIGP Restart (06) CPU0002, PARM 00000000: CC 0                                                               
CPU0000: SIGP Initial program reset (07) CPU0003, PARM 00000000: CC 0                                                 
CPU0000: SIGP Restart (06) CPU0003, PARM 00000000: CC 0                                                               
CPU0000: SIGP Initial program reset (07) CPU0004, PARM 00000000: CC 0                                                 
CPU0000: SIGP Restart (06) CPU0004, PARM 00000000: CC 0                                                               
CPU0000: SIGP Initial program reset (07) CPU0005, PARM 00000000: CC 0                                                 
HHCCP011I CPU0000: Disabled wait state                                                                                
          PSW=000200FF 80050064
(and nothing comes up on any of the x3270 sessions)

Similar things with 4. 

I can only boot Turnkey with 2.



On May 19, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote:

>  --------------------------------<snip>------------------------------
> So MVS38j *will* use multiple cpus ?
> -------------------------------<unsnip>-----------------------------
> Very nicely. 3.8J would use up to 8 CPU's in a CEC.
> 
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> Or is that Hercules starting the O.S on the multiple cpus?
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> I don't know Hercules well enough to answer that. But on a single-engine PC, trying to activate a second MVS CPU probably isn't going to serve any purpose, other than, perhaps, add to confusion factors.
> 
> ------------------------------<snip>--------------------------
> The turnkey "stock" config has NUMCPU 1, is that because the multiple CPU feature didn't exist at the time Turnkey was released, or other reasons ?
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> MVS has always run on up to at least 8 CPU's, so there may well be other reasons.
> 
> Rick
>
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