> -----Original Message----- > From: R, Karthik > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 9:01 AM > To: Cooper Jr., Franklin > Cc: R, Karthik; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [meta-arago] [RFC PATCH] base-files: Increase /var/volatile size > > Thanks for the feedback Franklin. > > Starting from Weston 1.6.0, weston itself consumes about 10MB of the > tmpfs while it initializes. You might have not seen this because this is > observable only when you use multiple displays (usually with DRM backend). > > And then on top of this when you invoke many the weston applications > together, we quickly run out of the 16MB size that is preconfigured. > > It is desirable that this size be as high as possible to allow more UI > intensive > applications, and many applications, to be able to run simultaneously. > > This would be needed for all platforms and more so with QT applications > coming in, I'm guessing that this will need to be set to a higher value. > > Can we agree on some reasonably big size? [Franklin] Thanks for clarifying. The majority of the evms we support only have max 1 hdmi output so multiple displays aren't used. However, I personally have no issue bumping and if it is a problem we can always fix it. As long as Denys doesn't have an concerns then I'm ok.
> > Regards > Karthik > > On 29-Jan-15 8:20 PM, Cooper Jr., Franklin wrote: > > I think the size just determines the "maximum" amount of RAM that can be > used. So your basically your allowing the tmpfs to consume upto 50MB of > memory. I never seen an issue on Beaglebone Black and AM57 with the > current tmpfs being too small. Are the problems your seeing related to a > particular application/demo? If its specific to a particular platform maybe > just create a custom fstab for that platform. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:meta-arago- > >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of R, Karthik > >> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:31 AM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: [meta-arago] [RFC PATCH] base-files: Increase /var/volatile > >> size > >> > >> * Weston applications allocate memory from tmpfs, need to > >> increase the tmpfs area to atleast 50M. Can this be > >> increased more - what are the pros/cons? > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Karthik Ramanan <[email protected]> > >> --- > >> .../recipes-core/base-files/base-files/fstab | 2 +- > >> .../base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bbappend | 2 +- > >> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > >> > >> diff --git > >> a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/fstab > >> b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/fstab > >> index 9ed6f33..8ddadd9 100644 > >> --- a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/fstab > >> +++ b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/fstab > >> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ proc /proc proc > >> defaults 0 > 0 > >> devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 > >> 0 0 > >> usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto > >> 0 0 > >> tmpfs /run tmpfs > mode=0755,nodev,nosuid,strictatime 0 > >> 0 > >> -tmpfs /var/volatile tmpfs defaults,size=16M > >> 0 0 > >> +tmpfs /var/volatile tmpfs defaults,size=50M > >> 0 0 > >> tmpfs /media/ram tmpfs defaults,size=16M > >> 0 0 > >> > >> # uncomment this if your device has a SD/MMC/Transflash slot diff > >> --git > >> a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bbappen > >> d > >> b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bbappen > >> d > >> index 40b7722..956a057 100644 > >> --- > >> a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bbappen > >> d > >> +++ b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bba > >> +++ ppe > >> +++ nd > >> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ > >> # look for files in this layer first > >> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:" > >> > >> -PR_append = "-arago3" > >> +PR_append = "-arago4" > >> -- > >> 1.7.9.5 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> meta-arago mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://arago-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meta-arago _______________________________________________ meta-arago mailing list [email protected] http://arago-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meta-arago
