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A memory consumption problem occured in recent simulations (cmcast-[150,200,250].tcl), so we decided to take a closer look at scaling issue. See page http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns-scaling.html which demostrates the efforts in finding the bottlneck.
The following table summarises the results of investigating the
bottleneck:
| KBytes | cmcast-50.tcl(217 Links) | cmcast-100.tcl(950 Links) |
| trace-all | 8,084 | 28,541 |
| turn off trace-all | 5,095 | 15,465 |
| use array | 5,091 | 15,459 |
| remove unnecessay variables | 5,087 | 15,451 |
| on SunOS | 5,105 | 15,484 |