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Revision: 520
Author:   

Date:     Wed Aug 24 05:57:14 2011
Log:      Improved web100 snaplog trace description.
http://code.google.com/p/ndt/source/detail?r=520

Modified:
 /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki

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--- /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki    Wed Aug 24 05:41:51 2011
+++ /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki    Wed Aug 24 05:57:14 2011
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@

 ===web100 snaplog trace===

-This file contains all the the web100 kernel MIB variables in 5 msec  
increments. The NDT package comes with a utility (called genplot) that can  
convert these trace files into text or xplot graph files. Alternatively the  
user can write their own analysis program using the web100 library  
functions.
+Writing snaplog file is enabled by `--snaplog` option.
+
+This file contains all the the [http://www.web100.org/ web100] kernel MIB  
variables' values written in a fixed time (default is 5 msec) increments.  
The list of logged variables with a short description can be found in the  
[NDTProtocol#Appendix_A._web100_variables NDT Protocol document].

 ===web100srv.log file===

@@ -71,6 +73,8 @@

 The tcpdump files can be read using [http://www.tcpdump.org/ tcpdump] and  
[http://www.tcptrace.org/ tcptrace] programs.

+The NDT package comes with a utility (called genplot) that can convert  
snaplog trace files into text or xplot graph files. Alternatively the user  
can write their own analysis program using the web100 library functions.
+
 The NDT server also contains a Java application that can look through the  
NDT log files and link log entries to trace files, and it also simplifies  
the viewing of this data. The utility will need to be rewritten slightly to  
take advantage of the meta files instead of (in addition to) the log files.

 The detailed tcpdump and snaplog files can be used to re-examine the test  
to see what happened, i.e.: