Re: ns memory usage

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@isi.edu>]

>  Even though my experiments with multicast congestion control are rather
> simple (the topology is a tree with 31 nodes, the links have delays of 5
> ms and bandwidths of around 10 Mbs, packets are 1 KB in size), they run
> out of 1 GB memory just after 100 seconds of simulation. I wrote my own
> agents to implement the simulated protocol and do not really need nam
> (performance data are written into small-size files and displayed by
> xgraph).

Is it CBR source? What's the data rate? With my experience with the SRM
agent, it's very easy to get high memory profile when data rate (or loss
rate) is high. 

- Haobo

>   If the memory usage seems excessive to you, could you think about any
> potential reasons for it? I will greatly appreciate any suggestions that
> can lead to a better performance.
> 
>   Thank you,
> 
>   Sergey
>    
> 
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