.. note::
The full list can be retrieved by passing ``--help`` and
- ``--help-cfg`` to an executable that uses SimGrid.
-
-- **clean-atexit:** :ref:`cfg=clean-atexit`
+ ``--help-cfg`` to an executable that uses SimGrid. Try passing
+ ``help`` as a value to get the list of values accepted by a given
+ option. For example, ``--cfg=plugin:help`` will give you the list
+ of plugins available in your installation of SimGrid.
- **contexts/factory:** :ref:`cfg=contexts/factory`
- **contexts/guard-size:** :ref:`cfg=contexts/guard-size`
- **cpu/model:** :ref:`options_model_select`
- **cpu/optim:** :ref:`Cpu Optimization Level <options_model_optim>`
+- **debug/breakpoint:** :ref:`cfg=debug/breakpoint`
+- **debug/clean-atexit:** :ref:`cfg=debug/clean-atexit`
+- **debug/verbose-exit:** :ref:`cfg=debug/verbose-exit`
+
- **exception/cutpath:** :ref:`cfg=exception/cutpath`
- **host/model:** :ref:`options_model_select`
- **model-check/checkpoint:** :ref:`cfg=model-check/checkpoint`
- **model-check/communications-determinism:** :ref:`cfg=model-check/communications-determinism`
- **model-check/dot-output:** :ref:`cfg=model-check/dot-output`
-- **model-check/hash:** :ref:`cfg=model-checker/hash`
- **model-check/max-depth:** :ref:`cfg=model-check/max-depth`
- **model-check/property:** :ref:`cfg=model-check/property`
- **model-check/reduction:** :ref:`cfg=model-check/reduction`
- **model-check/replay:** :ref:`cfg=model-check/replay`
- **model-check/send-determinism:** :ref:`cfg=model-check/send-determinism`
-- **model-check/sparse-checkpoint:** :ref:`cfg=model-check/sparse-checkpoint`
- **model-check/termination:** :ref:`cfg=model-check/termination`
- **model-check/timeout:** :ref:`cfg=model-check/timeout`
- **model-check/visited:** :ref:`cfg=model-check/visited`
- **path:** :ref:`cfg=path`
- **plugin:** :ref:`cfg=plugin`
-- **simix/breakpoint:** :ref:`cfg=simix/breakpoint`
-
- **storage/max_file_descriptors:** :ref:`cfg=storage/max_file_descriptors`
- **surf/precision:** :ref:`cfg=surf/precision`
- **Tracing configuration options** can be found in Section :ref:`tracing_tracing_options`
- **storage/model:** :ref:`options_model_select`
-- **verbose-exit:** :ref:`cfg=verbose-exit`
- **vm/model:** :ref:`options_model_select`
without corrective factors. The timings of small messages are thus
poorly modeled. This model is described in `A Network Model for
Simulation of Grid Application
- <ftp://ftp.ens-lyon.fr/pub/LIP/Rapports/RR/RR2002/RR2002-40.ps.gz>`_.
- - **Reno/Reno2/Vegas:** Models from Steven H. Low using lagrange_solve instead of
- lmm_solve (experts only; check the code for more info).
- - **NS3** (only available if you compiled SimGrid accordingly):
+ <https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00071989/document>`_.
+ - **ns-3** (only available if you compiled SimGrid accordingly):
Use the packet-level network
- simulators as network models (see :ref:`pls_ns3`).
+ simulators as network models (see :ref:`model_ns3`).
This model can be :ref:`further configured <options_pls>`.
- ``cpu/model``: specify the used CPU model. We have only one model
.. _options_pls:
-Configuring NS3
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Configuring ns-3
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-**Option** ``ns3/TcpModel`` **Default:** "default" (NS3 default)
+**Option** ``ns3/TcpModel`` **Default:** "default" (ns-3 default)
-When using NS3, there is an extra item ``ns3/TcpModel``, corresponding
+When using ns-3, there is an extra item ``ns3/TcpModel``, corresponding
to the ``ns3::TcpL4Protocol::SocketType`` configuration item in
-NS3. The only valid values (enforced on the SimGrid side) are
-'default' (no change to the NS3 configuration), 'NewReno' or 'Reno' or
+ns-3. The only valid values (enforced on the SimGrid side) are
+'default' (no change to the ns-3 configuration), 'NewReno' or 'Reno' or
'Tahoe'.
Configuring the Storage model
communication determinism mode of the model-checker which checks
determinism properties of the communications of an application.
-.. _cfg=model-check/sparse-checkpoint:
-
-Incremental Checkpoints
-.......................
-
-When the model-checker is configured to take a snapshot of each
-explored state (with the ``model-checker/visited`` item), the memory
-consumption can rapidly reach GiB ou Tib of memory. However, for many
-workloads, the memory does not change much between different snapshots
-and taking a complete copy of each snapshot is a waste of memory.
-
-The ``model-check/sparse-checkpoint`` option item can be set to
-**yes** to avoid making a complete copy of each snapshot. Instead,
-each snapshot will be decomposed in blocks which will be stored
-separately. If multiple snapshots share the same block (or if the
-same block is used in the same snapshot), the same copy of the block
-will be shared leading to a reduction of the memory footprint.
-
-For many applications, this option considerably reduces the memory
-consumption. In somes cases, the model-checker might be slightly
-slower because of the time taken to manage the metadata about the
-blocks. In other cases however, this snapshotting strategy will be
-much faster by reducing the cache consumption. When the memory
-consumption is important, by avoiding to hit the swap or reducing the
-swap usage, this option might be much faster than the basic
-snapshotting strategy.
-
-This option is currently disabled by default.
-
Verification Performance Considerations
.......................................
consumption of the snapshots to be @f$ @mbox{number of processes}
@times @mbox{stack size} @times @mbox{number of states} @f$.
-The ``model-check/sparse-checkpoint`` can be used to reduce the memory
-consumption by trying to share memory between the different snapshots.
-
When compiled against the model checker, the stacks are not
protected with guards: if the stack size is too small for your
application, the stack will silently overflow on other parts of the
memory (see :ref:`contexts/guard-size <cfg=contexts/guard-size>`).
-.. _cfg=model-checker/hash:
-
-State Hashing
-.............
-
-Usually most of the time of the model-checker is spent comparing states. This
-process is complicated and consumes a lot of bandwidth and cache.
-In order to speedup the state comparison, the experimental ``model-checker/hash``
-configuration item enables the computation of a hash summarizing as much
-information of the state as possible into a single value. This hash can be used
-to avoid most of the comparisons: the costly comparison is then only used when
-the hashes are identical.
-
-Currently most of the state is not included in the hash because the
-implementation was found to be buggy and this options is not as useful as
-it could be. For this reason, it is currently disabled by default.
-
.. _cfg=model-check/replay:
Replaying buggy execution paths out of the model-checker
bandwidth of the link).
An experimental script to compute these factors is available online. See
-http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/contrib/smpi-calibration-doc.html
-http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/contrib/smpi-saturation-doc.html
+https://framagit.org/simgrid/platform-calibration/
+https://simgrid.org/contrib/smpi-saturation-doc.html
.. _cfg=smpi/display-timing:
Other Configurations
--------------------
-.. _cfg=clean-atexit:
+.. _cfg=debug/clean-atexit:
Cleanup at Termination
......................
-**Option** ``clean-atexit`` **default:** on
+**Option** ``debug/clean-atexit`` **default:** on
If your code is segfaulting during its finalization, it may help to
disable this option to request SimGrid to not attempt any cleanups at
item. To add several directory to the path, set the configuration
item several times, as in ``--cfg=path:toto --cfg=path:tutu``
-.. _cfg=simix/breakpoint:
+.. _cfg=debug/breakpoint:
Set a Breakpoint
................
-**Option** ``simix/breakpoint`` **default:** unset
+**Option** ``debug/breakpoint`` **default:** unset
This configuration option sets a breakpoint: when the simulated clock
reaches the given time, a SIGTRAP is raised. This can be used to stop
set variable simgrid::simix::breakpoint = 3.1416
-.. _cfg=verbose-exit:
+.. _cfg=debug/verbose-exit:
Behavior on Ctrl-C
..................
-**Option** ``verbose-exit`` **default:** on
+**Option** ``debug/verbose-exit`` **default:** on
By default, when Ctrl-C is pressed, the status of all existing actors
is displayed before exiting the simulation. This is very useful to
