[Tinyos-help] TOSSIM Hangs

Philip Levis pal at cs.stanford.edu
Fri Nov 2 10:09:33 PDT 2007


On Nov 2, 2007, at 4:09 AM, Alban Hessler wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> I have the last cvs update of T2 and Python 2.5 on Ubuntu 7.10.
>
> I have a problem with TOSSIM. If I run a test, TOSSIM loads a lot  
> of data, which eats up the RAM and finally the swap, which makes  
> the PC very slow.. The execution of the test seems to never happen..
>
> With the verbose, I don't get much information except that he loads  
> the different modules (TOSSIM, math, etc..) : The last line before  
> it hangs is:
>
> "import _TOSSIM # dynamically loaded from /home/hessler/tinyos- 2.x/ 
> apps/tests/myapp/_TOSSIMmodule.so"
>
> I don't know what change I made to my system so that it doesn't  
> work any more (it used to work some months ago ..).
>
>
> I tried to use 2.4 (and modified sim.extra accordingly, of course),  
> but that didn't solve the problem.
>

Can you send the script? Based on your description, it could be  
anything from a bug where you're entering an infinite loop when  
loading a trace file to having too many nodes.

Phil


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