Caring for Your Dynamips Install — Deleting Unwanted Files
February 24, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 2 Comments
Dynamips and dynagen are well behaved programs most of the time. Occasionally I am configuring a feature or two that causes IOS to crash (most recently I was configuring MPLS and redistribution on c2600 IOS which got really busted).
Then I noticed that my hard drive didn’t have a lot of free space.…
I have a MacBook Pro with a 160Gb drive, and I need to be careful about available space. I looked into the my Dynalab directory (why ?and found a number of files that can be deleted. As you can see in the screenshot, I have a log file that is over 1 Gigabyte in size for R8, and the dynamips log file is 250MB
Since these are log files they can be deleted, as the log files are locked by dynamips make sure it is not running.
The log file is due to the IOS crash I had. I no longer use any other images but the C3640 image. I think that this uses less memory because of the memory shadowing features implemented in dynamips. As I understand it, when you use the ghostios==true, dynamips loads a single copy of the IOS image into RAM and then all of the routers you use will reference that single copy of the file.
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Can you ask Greg if he knows how to configure Olive (“Dynamips” for Juniper)?
I don’t know about olive so I can’t help. Sorry about that.