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Re: [ns] problem with trace-all



On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Nasser Al Zidi wrote:

> I'm using trace-all to to trace the packets on my topology. However the
> resulting file is getting very large (>400MB) for only 30 minutes of
> simulation. is there a way to get smaller files . may be in binary
> format.

pipe directly to a gzip command, or to a grep or awk filter only
recording the events of interest to you, or both. Slows the
simulation, though.

set outputtrace stupidfilename
set filehandlething [open "| gzip -c | grep CBR > $outputtrace.gz" w]

or variations thereof.

L.

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