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

[Or Gerlitz]

Or Gerlitz wrote:
> I am using rds-tools-1.0-20 over OFED 1.3 beta (i.e the tools package that
> came with it) and have problems running rds-sink/gen. It seems that -gen
> program:
> 
> 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?
> 
> The problems were initially reported by Ronen Ben Cohen <ronenb at voltaire.com>

Hi Ronen,

Can you please open bugs in the OFED bugzilla for 1-3 above?

Or.

> 
> Or.
> 
> [root at excellnet2 ~]# rds-gen -s 192.168.3.62:1234 -d 192.168.3.61:1234 -m 67k -l 104857600 -b 8k -i 1
> rds-gen: Unable to set send buffer size: Invalid argument
> 
> [root at excellnet2 ~]# rds-gen -s 192.168.3.62:1234 -d 192.168.3.61:1234 -m 67k -l 104857600 -b 8192 -i 1
> rds-gen: Unable to set send buffer size: Invalid argument
> 
> root at excellnet2 ~]# rds-gen -s 192.168.3.62:1234 -d 192.168.3.61:1234 -m 66k -l 104857600  -i 1
>        Bytes sent/s      Packets sent/s        Bytes recv/s      Packets recv/s
>              608256                   9                   0                   0
>              270336                   4                   0                   0
> 
> [root at excellnet2 ~]# rds-gen -s 192.168.3.62:1234 -d 192.168.3.61:1234 -m 67k -l 104857600  -i 1
>        Bytes sent/s      Packets sent/s        Bytes recv/s      Packets recv/s
> rds-gen: Error from sendmsg: Message too long
> 
> 
> root at excellnet2 ~]# ls -l /var/log/messages
> -rw-------  1 root root 14912728 Dec  2 13:28 /var/log/messages
> [root at excellnet2 ~]# rds-gen -s 192.168.3.62:1234 -d 192.168.3.61:1234 -m 64k -f /var/log/messages -i 1
>        Bytes sent/s      Packets sent/s        Bytes recv/s      Packets recv/s Bytes read/s     Bytes written/s
> rds-gen: Unexpected end of file reading from /var/log/messages
> Total:
>            14876672                 227                   0
> 0            14916202                   0
> 
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