Re: Clock Error

Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2023-12-19 23:36, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-12-19 23:27:20 +0100, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 2023-12-19 23:25, Mouse wrote:
>>>> Anyway.
>>>> Desktop:           Tue Dec 19 23:00:23 CET 2023
>>>> NetBSD under simh: Wed Dec 20 05:16:22 CET 2023
>>>
>>>> Time was originally pretty correct.
>>>
>>> Running _fast_?  That's not lost interrupts, then.  (It could be
>>> _extra_ interrupts, but that strikes me as a less likely failure mode.)
>>
>> Yup. Something seriously wrong. And I would not exclude bugs in simh causing
>> *lots* of extra interrupts. Especially considering the Ken also running
>> under simh without seeing this effect.
> 
> I wonder if idle detection plays a role...

I have idle detection enabled, and it is working. But right now, the 
simulated VAX isn't exactly idle at all. :-)

   Johnny

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