Re: NetBSD/vax 11.0RC1

On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 05:23:18PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 11:19:45AM -0500, Ken Wellsch wrote:
> > Maybe this is actually working correctly and I'm just not letting it
> > run (thrash) along long enough :)
> > 
> >   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE       TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
> > 17661 root      26    0   274M  249M RUN        22:42 99.02% 99.02% cc1plus
> > 17661 root      26    0   274M  248M RUN        22:57 99.02% 99.02% cc1plus
> > 17661 root      25    0   282M  254M RUN        23:22 99.02% 99.02% cc1plus
> > 17661 root      79    0   284M  256M RUN        23:30 91.16% 91.16% cc1plus
> 
> How did you start the build? There should not be any parallel compiler
> instances running unless you pass -j something to build.sh (and that would
> be a very bad idea on any memory limited machine).
> 
> Martin

No, I would never use -j with any VAXen, real or emulator :)

The above looks the way it does because, every minute, I manually cut-
n-pasted the screen view of "top" running on another window from which
I telneted to the emulated serial port I enabled on SIMH.  I pasted that
to a file.

The above is me going "grep cc1plus" on that file so one did not have
a thousand lines of predictable noise processes, but allow one to focus
specifically on the execution evolution over time.

e.g.

load averages:  1.00,  1.00,  1.00;               up 0+05:59:38 15:02:45
19 processes: 1 runnable, 17 sleeping, 1 on CPU
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  100% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Memory: 225M Act, 110M Inact, 20M Exec, 54M File, 135M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free / Pools: 19M Used / Network: 

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE       TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
17661 root      79    0   284M  256M RUN        24:19 51.03% 51.03% cc1plus
    0 root     126    0     0K 8240K pgdaemon    0:52  0.00%  0.00% [system]
25262 root      81    0    10M    0K wait        0:15  0.00%  0.00% nbgmake
14778 kwellsch  43    0  5148K  200K CPU         0:05  0.00%  0.00% top
25705 root      80    0  5620K    0K wait        0:03  0.00%  0.00% nbgmake
  746 root      85    0    12M    0K wait        0:01  0.00%  0.00% login
  722 root      84    0    12M    0K wait        0:01  0.00%  0.00% login
 7204 root      80    0  4480K    0K wait        0:01  0.00%  0.00% nbmake
  664 root      85    0  5032K    0K kqueue      0:00  0.00%  0.00% inetd
21523 kwellsch  85    0  4928K    0K wait        0:00  0.00%  0.00% sh
  700 root      85    0  4928K    0K wait        0:00  0.00%  0.00% sh
    1 root      85    0  4872K    0K wait        0:00  0.00%  0.00% init
  687 root      85    0  2956K    0K ttyraw      0:00  0.00%  0.00% getty
 4519 root      81    0  5488K    0K wait        0:00  0.00%  0.00% nbmake
13119 root      81    0  4464K    0K wait        0:00  0.00%  0.00% nbmake
18544 root      80    0  7656K    0K wait        0:00  0.00%  0.00% c++
12437 root      80    0  5488K    0K wait        0:00  0.00%  0.00% nbmake
27582 root      80    0  4948K    0K wait        0:00  0.00%  0.00% sh
  763 root      80    0  4924K    0K wait        0:00  0.00%  0.00% sh