On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 07:17 -0400, Shane Volpe wrote: > Subrata and Mike, > Thank you both for the feedback. I will take notes through out my > effort clean them up and post them along with any patches that I have > had to add.
Good to hear from you on this. Will wait for your patches to pour in to LTP. Regards-- Subrata > > quote: > >> I think longterm there needs to be a max static (flash) and max > >> dynamic (RAM) arguments that you can set somewhere in ltp > > I was a little hasty to make the above statement. When I sent you > that email, I had spent several days trying to get ltp to work and > would fix one memory test only to have ltp fail again with an OOM > several tests later . Now that I'm further along and have a better > perspective on what really is involved with getting ltp working on an > embedded system I realize the OOM issues really are isolated to a > handful of tests. > > I think that if the few tests that use large memory and don't > currently contain an input argument to limit it are patched and that > somewhere there is good documentation (wiki probably) on how to > configure ltp to work nicely on a small memory (embedded) system > everyone will be happy. > > I guess the tests that use considerable amounts of memory could also > just be re-written to detect the system RAM making sure to only use > some percentage of it, if the memory limit makes the test useless then > it should return some message stating that. I will look at the tests > I have had issues with and see if this is an easy thing to implement. > Regards, > Shane > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 25 April 2008, Subrata Modak wrote: > > > But i am not that much aware of the embedded environment, and, so will > > > also leave on others who have worked on it (May be Carmelo, Mike, > > > others) to review all that you have proposed below, and give their > > > suggestions on this as well. Hoping to work with you for making LTP work > > > on Embedded platforms as well. > > > > we run LTP on no-mmu systems with 64megs of ram (which means more like > > ~50megs > > actually available) and really dont see OOM issues. we see stack > > overflows, > > but that is a completely different topic. on mmu systems, i see it not > > really being an issue at all. but again, we really only do the kernel > > subdir > > (and it looks like we're talking about the math subdir). > > > > for tests that use a lot of memory, instead of bemoaning the issue, fixup > > the > > tests to address your needs and post the patch. > > -mike > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
