Hi Matt, The changes aren't bad and can easily be turned off in the options header file. I'll post a patch by the end of the week.
Farrell On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Matt Johnston <m...@ucc.asn.au> wrote: > Hi Farrell, > > If the changes are fairly unobtrusive, I think it might be > worth including. Do you have a patch handy? > > Cheers, > Matt > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 03:11:13PM -0400, Farrell Aultman wrote: > > I discovered that dropbear, especially when using libz for > > compression/decompression, causes memory fragmentation in uClinux - to > the > > point that the system doesn't have enough contiguous memory to continue > to > > function after ~24 hours. This will be a problem for any system that > > doesn't have an MMU. Normally, programs specifically targeted for > uClinux > > will allocate all memory statically and the program itself will load > execute > > in place (EIP) from a romfs. > > > > Thankfully, dropbear has wrapper functions for malloc and related calls > that > > can easily be replaced globally. I have integated the bget memory > manager > > with dropbear. Dropbear will initially get a large chunk of system > memory, > > then all future memory allocations are handled by bget, resulting in no > > system memory fragmentation. I also use bget for libtommath and > > libtomcrypt. I'm posting this to see if there is any interest in a patch > > with bget integration. If not, this e-mail can serve as a search result > for > > someone to make a request in the future. > > > > Farrell > >
