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From: ecn!marcel@nluug.nl (Marcel Bernards)
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Subject: Re: SUN-4 FPU
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Date: 4 Mar 89 01:03:50 GMT
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Bruce G. Barnett writes:
>Maybe there is a communication problem, but Skip and I never said  
>the Sun 4/110 doesn't emulate the FPU.

You are right: It was a communication problem.  But is was on a late
friday afternoon and my eyes were getting square by looking to long at my
1152 * 900 Monochrome pixels ;-)

Sorry, my apologies......

>Does anyone have any ideas on how I can measure the number of traps I get
>so I can estimate the penalty I pay? (I use NeWS a lot).

ps, time, vmstat and pstat does not give appropriate information for
kernel I also want a trap logger (like perfmeter), but I'm not a Kernel
Guru :-(

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