[Iometer-user] Network Mounted drives; Cannot set specification ...

[RS R. <rs2...@ho...>]

OK, I can answer my own question.  dynamo is outputting:

   Grunt: Growing grunt data buffer from 314572800 to 314572800
   *** Grunt could not allocate read data buffer for I/O transfers.

Out of memory!

>Hi,
>I'm trying to run iomoeter on one of my network mounted drives.  I 
>understand that it creates a
>file called iobw.tst.  I want to create a huge file (several GBytes), so 
>that I can be sure that
>nothing is being cached.  However, whenever I create an access 
>specification that is quite large
>(say 500MB), then I get an error like this:
>
>"Worker 4" on "machine.com" cannot set specification 500M-Reads.  The 
>largest request or reply size may be too large"
>
>What is causing this error?  How can I get rid of it?
>
>I would like to try different files of different sizes (each worker would 
>read or write a single file, but the workers would each deal with a 
>different size), but when I try that, I also get this error.
>
>Any advice?
>
>-RS

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