> -----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
> >>
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