What is Experiment Restart?
Experiment restart (or perhaps more aptly, replay) allows you to rerun your experiment from scratch, but without the added expense of a swapin and swapout. In other words, the nodes that are currently allocated to your experiment are all rebooted, and the experiment startup state is cleared. The event scheduler for the experiment is restarted, and your event sequence is replayed again. Note that your rpms and tarfiles are not installed again. Replay is obviously faster than swapout/swapin, and has the added benefit that you will not run the risk of not being able to swapin for lack of available nodes. • How can I get switch statistics (such as packet counts) for my experiment? We have a command called portstats that allows you access to some of the port counters on our switches. To use it, you’ll need to ssh to users.isi.deterlab.net. ‘portstats
