Trafgen: Warning: Out of Memory

[Jon Schipp]

After doing a git clone yesterday from github.com/borkmann/netsniff-ng I've been getting "Out of memory" errors after running trafgen.

I tried on an Ubuntu Server 12.04 virtual machine (depicted below) and on physical server machine of the same distribution. Both worked

without problems before I compiled the latest and now both are giving me the same problem. I tried sending only one packet via "--num 1"

and it does the same thing. Physical machine has 4 cores and 4GB of RAM. Virtual machine has 4 cores allocated from host OS and I 

think 1GB of RAM. The machines become unresponsive (I waited up to around 5 minutes) and I'm forced to do a hard reboot.

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 06/27/2013 02:03 AM, Jon Schipp wrote:
> After doing a git clone yesterday from github.com/borkmann/netsniff-ng I've
> been getting "Out of memory" errors after running trafgen.

Sorry for the late answer Jon. As we have discussed lots of stuff off-list,
this seem to have gotten lost under way.

> I tried on an Ubuntu Server 12.04 virtual machine (depicted below) and on
> physical server machine of the same distribution. Both worked
> without problems before I compiled the latest and now both are giving me
> the same problem. I tried sending only one packet via "--num 1"
> and it does the same thing. Physical machine has 4 cores and 4GB of RAM.
> Virtual machine has 4 cores allocated from host OS and I
> think 1GB of RAM. The machines become unresponsive (I waited up to around 5
> minutes) and I'm forced to do a hard reboot.

This is very weird. Having the file foo contain garbage and running trafgen with
"--num 1" seems fine from here (sysmem looks stable as well):

# cat foo
{ fill(0xff, 64) }
# trafgen -i foo -o wlan0 --num 1
2 packets to schedule
128 bytes in total
Running! Hang up with ^C!


1 packets outgoing
64 bytes outgoing
0 sec, 35 usec on CPU0 (0 packets)
0 sec, 30 usec on CPU1 (1 packets)
#

Can you try to reproduce this with the latest Git version?

Thanks,

Daniel

[chandras...@gmail.com]

while running trafgen commands , i am getting segmentation fault (cpre dump).

can someone please guide me to move further ?

Thanks,
Chandra

[Vadim Kochan]

Hi Chandra,

Sorry for the late response !

Would you please provide commands which did you use ?

Thanks!

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