[Gems-users] regarding tester

["Salil..." <smpant@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi
   I am using tester for checking a coherence protocol that I have 
written. I ran the tester with length (-l) 10000 onwards and verbosity low
The tester doesent seem to end -  it just hangs somewhere like this ( 
actually this is true for all lengths)
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Debug: in fn bool CacheMemory<ENTRY>::tryCacheAccess(const Address&, 
CacheRequestType, DataBlock*&) [with ENTRY = L1Cache_Entry] in 
system/CacheMemory.h:290: address is [0xfc0, line 0xfc0]
Request trace file closed.
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The trace file size (ruby.trace.gz) is 0.
however if I dont supply the -v option, it ends like this
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================ End System Configuration Print ================

Testing clear stats...Done.
Request trace enabled to output file 'ruby.trace.gz'
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It just hangs after this and so i have to kill it.
is that something to do with my protocol or am i not running the tester 
rite ?
also.,my concern here is that I want to catch situations where the 
messages never make it back ( becoz of incorrect design etc ) and so 
some requests get stalled forever. Does the tester catch situations like 
these ???
thanks
salil