Re: [snmpsim-users] Simulator Performance

[Ilya E. <il...@gl...>]

Alright, here's a version of snmpsim which supports the 
--transport-id-offset=<number> command-line parameter to let you control 
transport IDs allocation:

http://snmpsim.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/snmpsim/snmpsim/?view=tar

Let me know in case of any issues with it.

-ilya

On 08/28/2013 02:03 AM, Kaleb Loo wrote:
> Hello,
> Thanks for the reply again.
> I figured that's what I would have to do, but was hoping there was a 
> cleaner solution.
> Thank you for all of your help,
> Kaleb Loo
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Ilya Etingof <il...@gl... 
> <mailto:il...@gl...>> wrote:
>
>     Well, that's a good point as there's currently no way to control
>     transport IDs allocation (but this could be easily added into
>     snmpsimd.py).
>
>     The simplest solution would be to let multiple instances
>     allocating the same set of transport IDs but use dedicated
>     --data-dir's for each instance having different .snmprec files for
>     the same transport ID in each --data-dir.
>
>     What do you think?
>
>     -ilya
>
>
>     On 08/28/2013 01:36 AM, Kaleb Loo wrote:
>
>         Hello,
>         Thank you for your response.
>         If I run multiple instances of the simulator, how do I get the
>         simulator to start the ip association with the desire
>         transport ID.
>         For example, if my first instance uses transport IDs 10-253
>         for IPs 10.200.1.1-254
>         How do I get the next instance to use transport IDs 254-508
>         for IPs 10.200.2.1-254
>         Thank you,
>         Kaleb Loo
>
>
>         On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Ilya Etingof <il...@gl...
>         <mailto:il...@gl...> <mailto:il...@gl...
>         <mailto:il...@gl...>>> wrote:
>
>             Hi Kaleb,
>
>             Here's a quick link on the topic of simulator performance
>         improvement:
>
>         http://snmpsim.sourceforge.net/simulator-tips.html
>
>             -ilya
>
>
>             On 08/26/2013 10:44 PM, Kaleb Loo wrote:
>
>                 Hello,
>                 I was wondering if it is possible to increase the
>         performance
>                 of the simulator with any settings.
>                 I need to simulate 500+ devices and poll each of them
>         every
>                 10-30 seconds.
>                 I am able to generate the 500 devices but the
>         simulator seems
>                 to have trouble maintaining and gathering data for all 500
>                 devices.
>                 Currently I am able to simulate 250 devices and grab
>         data from
>                 them with no problem.
>                 Is there any way to improve the performance?
>
>                 I am running the simulator on a linux machine with 8
>         GB of RAM
>                 running CentOS. 2.67GHz CPU
>
>                 Thank you,
>                 Kaleb Loo
>
>
>
>
>