Re: [ns] Difference between 8Gb and 8000Mb?

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@isi.edu>]

ns does not parse Gb (which was not that popular 3 years ago) You
have to use 8000Mb for now.

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Bo Wen wrote:

> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:10:53 -0700
> From: Bo Wen <bowen@mail.wsu.edu>
> To: Kaleelazhicathu R R Kumar <iscp9133@nus.edu.sg>
> Cc: ns-users@ISI.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ns] Difference between 8Gb and 8000Mb?
> 
> No..., what I mean is bandwidth, not storage size.  For
> bandwidth, they shouble be same.  My question might not
> be clear:
> 
> In my simulation, I defined all links with 8Gb, run ns;
> defined all links with 8000Mb, run ns again.  I just found
> the latter is much faster (I guess abround 100 times) than
> the former.
> 
> Why, is that possible the variable (bind_bw) binding problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bo
> 
> Kaleelazhicathu R R Kumar wrote:
> 
> > it should be the other way i guess ...
> > 8GB should be 8*1024*1024*1024=8589934592b
> > 8000Mb=8000*1024*1024=8388608000b
> > where 1024=1k
> > by normal convention
> > so 8Gb > 8000Mb
> >   Renjish...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bo Wen [mailto:bowen@mail.wsu.edu]
> > Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 8:18 AM
> > To: ns-users@ISI.EDU
> > Subject: [ns] Difference between 8Gb and 8000Mb?
> >
> > I've got a werid phenomen, that when I define link with 8Gb,
> > it runs 100(approximately) times slower than defining link
> > with 8000Mb.
> >
> > Seems I'll try 8000000b, see whether it runs faster?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Bo Wen
> 
>