Additionally, in FS mode if you're running benchmarks with very large memory
footprints, you can mount a swap space disk to make the system more
realistic (as opposed to exorbitant amounts of simulated memory).  Before
running the benchmark, just run:
  % /sbin/swapon /dev/hdc

  Joel


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]> wrote:

> There are bugs in the O3 model such that restoring directly from a
> checkpoint into O3 doesn't work.  That's why the standard-switch model
> exists.  I don't think it has anything to do with the memory size.
>
> Steve
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Lide Duan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that the default memory size set in Benchmarks.py is 128MB,
> isn't
> > it too small for reasonable simulations?
> >
> > Previously when I was using ALPHA_SE, the physmem is set to "2GB", and
> the
> > simulation ran well. In FS mode, however, if 2GB is used, booting up
> Linux
> > (with atomic CPU) becomes extremely slow; if 1GB or 512MB is used, I can
> > boot up the OS, start the program and make a checkpoint successfully.
> > However, restoring from the checkpoint directly with detailed CPU
> > (--detailed) gives me "segmentation fault", the interesting thing is: if
> I
> > restore the checkpoint with atomic CPU and then switch to timing and
> > detailed ones (--standard-switch), the simulation runs well. For the
> default
> > value 128MB, both --detailed and --standard-switch can run. I am confused
> by
> > this observation. Am I missing anything here? What is a reasonable memory
> > size in FS mode (say, for PARSEC programs)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lide
> >
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  Joel Hestness
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  Dept. of Computer Science, University of Texas - Austin
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