[ns] max file size exceeded

Nima Nafisi nima.nafisi at kcl.ac.uk
Fri Apr 8 16:17:23 PDT 2005


Dear Ian,
I have no answer to this. I would be curious to know if this file size 
would also happen with PDNS (simulation with a cluster of Linux computers)?
Has anybody an idea on this?
Regards,
Nima.


downard wrote:

>
> I'm running a simulation with 50 rather active wireless nodes, for 2000
> seconds.  Ns is failing to run this simulation past the first 184
> seconds.  It's ending with the error "File size limit exceeded".  I know
> I can tone down the simulation by turning off tracing, reducing
> simulation time, and using fewer nodes, but I'm still confused as to why
> I'm exceededing the maximum allowable file size.  I'm running this
> simulation in an ext3 file system, which has max file sizes in the
> Terabyte range.  Besides, when ns2 ends, the trace file is only about
> 227 MB large.
>
> Can anyone explain what's going on here?
>
> Thanks,
>    Ian
>
>



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