[rds-devel] Re: problems with rds-tools

[Or Gerlitz]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> 1) refuses to work with the buffer size -b option
>
> 2) when attempting to use message size -m > 66k there is a "message too long" error.
> Is this a known limitation, am I missing something re the buffer size option?
>
> 3) when using the -f option to rds-gen I get "Unexpected end of file reading from" error.
> Again, is it a known issue?

Also, its seems that rds-gen fails to identify the end-of-file for binary files, eg when doing

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/x bs=1k count=1024
$ rds-gen -s 192.168.3.62:1234 -d 192.168.3.61:1234 -m 1k -f /tmp/x -i 1

you can see that it reads 1M and sends them forever:

Bytes sent/s      Packets sent/s        Bytes recv/s      Packets recv/s        Bytes read/s     Bytes written/s
          177993728              173822                   0                   0             1048576                   0
          177528832              173368                   0                   0                   0                   0
          176542720              172405                   0                   0                   0                   0
          176452608              172317                   0                   0                   0                   0

etc

Or.