On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 08:57 -0400, Shane Volpe wrote:
> Subrata,
> Yes, I'm working on it.  My time has been limited do to a major
> product release I'm involved with but I'm still making good progress.
> I hope to have a first cut (preliminary) toward the middle of next
> month.

Shane,

I hope you are ready with a draft version of our cherished document.

Regards--
Subrata

> Regards,
> Shane
> 
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Subrata Modak
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Shane,
> >
> >  You said you will be creating a neat document of how to configure LTP
> >  for run on embedded systems. Are you working on it ? I would be waiting
> >  for that to make it available on the LTP website. It should be more like
> >  a technical document which we should be able to produce on other
> >  technical websites/magazines.
> >
> >  Regards--
> >  Subrata
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 23:35 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >  > On Friday 25 April 2008, Shane Volpe wrote:
> >  > > 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.
> >  > >
> >  > > 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.
> >  >
> >  > command line arguments would certainly be desirable in the edge cases, 
> > but i
> >  > wonder if we should introduce some environment variables and have the 
> > default
> >  > memory settings key off of those.  that way people who run LTP wholesale 
> > (via
> >  > the provided scripts or whatever) rather than 1 test at a time by hand 
> > dont
> >  > have to modify things.
> >  >
> >  > of course, such an approach would need to start with a high level 
> > document
> >  > that documents the common memory flags and settings to provide cohesion 
> > in
> >  > the first place.
> >  > -mike
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 


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