Re: [tlug] strange nfs crashes

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

> tcpdump -i <interface> -s 65535 -w <some-file>
> ... 
> 
> Unfortunately, before the application (the one I am using for
> calculation, _not_ tcpdump itself) crashed, I got two roughly 10GB files
> - one for client, one for server.

Meaning your application crashed, then soon after you stopped tcpdump?
If so, how about "tail --bytes=1000000000" to get just the last 1GB and
analyze that?
(Sorry I'm not familiar with tcpdump output; you might need to prepend a
header, and/or tidyup the cutoff point.)

Darren


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