[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Sun, 2023-04-16 at 16:32 -0500, John H Reinhardt wrote:
> On 4/16/2023 3:37 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> > On Sun, 2023-04-16 at 12:06 -0400, fsword007 at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Many modern CPU processors has more then 6 cores.  Does it affect
> > > VMS
> > > clusters?  Mine has 12 cores (i7-8700K).
> > 
> > I can confirm mine has 8 logical codes assigned to the OpenVMS VM.
> > It
> > boots up and sees all 8. I think I could add even more if I wanted
> > to.
> 
> How many license units does it use? My virtual machine with 4 vCPU
> used 4 of the 6 available.
> 
> $ show lice/unit
> ACMS               VSI                 6          4          2  Yes
> 
> *snip*

You are right. Although it does see 8 cores, it shows this:
$ sh lic/usage

View of loaded licenses from node GHOST1 		17-APR-2023
08:41:44.15

------- Product ID --------   ---- Unit usage information -------------
---
Product            Producer       Loaded  Allocated  Available 
Compliance
BASIC              VSI                 6          0          6  Yes
C                  VSI                 6          0          6  Yes
COBOL              VSI                 6          0          6  Yes
CXX-V              VSI                 6          0          6  Yes
FORTRAN            VSI                 6          0          6  Yes
PASCAL             VSI                 6          0          6  Yes

<snip>

(not sure why it's not showing VMS BOE as licenced when it is!)
 
$ sh proc

17-APR-2023 08:41:55.49   User: SYSTEM           Process ID:   00000425
                          Node: GHOST1           Process name: "SYSTEM"

Terminal:           OPA0:
User Identifier:    [SYSTEM]
Base priority:      4
Default file spec:  SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]
Number of Kthreads: 1 (System-wide limit: 8)

So it does see all the cores ... 
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