Re: Problem with NAM while playing animation

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@ISI.EDU>]

It runs fine for me on FreeBSD. It must be a platform-dependent problem.
It would be helpful if you can provide more information, e.g., where it
broke and how, since we don't have hpux machines here and cannot see why
it happened... Thanks.

- Haobo

On Thu, 27 May 1999, Nguyen Huu Thanh wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I have downloaded and successfully rebuilt ns-allinone-2.1b5 in HPUX
> 10.20 platform, which also includes nam-1.0a7. After that I want to get
> things started by begining with the tutorial of Greis (available at
> http://tintan.cs.uni-bonn.de/~greis/ns/ns.html). I could run the first
> examples but while trying the network dynamic example, NAM failed. This
> example descibes a ring network where the routing adjusts to the
> topology when a link is broken down at time 1. 
> 
> I was be able to run the animation until time 1, but at time 1, NAM
> crashed giving the following message:
> 
> $ nam out.nam
> 
> Cannot connect to existing nam instance. Starting a new one...
> Virtual memory exceeded in 'new'
> 
> It is a rather small simulation and unlikely that it consumes much
> memory on the system. I have also referred to the NAM FAQ but didn't
> find any information about this error. Can anybody help me to deal with
> it?
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> Thanh
> 
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