Re: nam taking up too much space

[Polly Huang <huang@catarina.usc.edu>]

Huiwen,

Could it be that the simulation is let to run for infinitely long (so the 
nam or other trace files are getting infinitely big)?

Cheers,
-Polly

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Huiwen Li wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am using ns to simulate a topology with only 33 nodes, and there are only
> 10 flows going. The link speed is up to 10Mbps, packet size is 1500B. There
> is only very small propagation delay on the link. When I am trying to
> generate a nam file for this topology, it takes up to 1000MB until it uses
> up all the available disk space. I don't know if I did something wrong or
> NAM did take up a lot of space depending on my topology? But my topology is
> very simply. Can someone give me some advice? Thanks in advance.
> 
> Huiwen
>