RE: disklabel MAXPARTITIONS reversal (was: installboot is broken)

[Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <Mark%infocomm.com@localhost>]

On Tuesday, April 09, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:02:31AM -0700, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote:
> 
> > I'm not 100% sure what you want here.
> 
> Heh - my notebook runs warm whenever simh sits idle at the (guest OS)
> console prompt. I want it to run cooler.

A reasonable goal.

> > When a simulated clock tick happens, other potential sources of
> > external events are polled to determine if data has arrived.  These
> > include console and/or other simulated multiplexer and network input.
> > So, the console and any other configured multiplexer devices will be
> > polled 100 times a second.
> 
> It might just happen to not work well with NetBSD cpu stats sampling, or
> there might be a bug - I haven't investigated more closely. top shows one
> cpu 100% busy, but that may be a missampling.

It probably isn't a missamping.  It may be that we're not detecting the idle 
state of the simulated OS.

What simh version?
What host OS and version?
What simulated OS and version?

- Mark