Hi Gilles,

  --> -----Original Message-----
  --> From: Gilles Chanteperdrix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  --> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:29 PM
  --> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  --> Cc: [email protected]
  --> Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] mlockall questions
  --> 
  --> Robert McCullough wrote:
  -->  > Hi,
  -->  >
  -->  > I am converting part of a C++ application to real-time.
  -->  >
  -->  > I noticed that all the Xenomai examples call
  -->  > mlockall(MCL_CURRENT|MCL_FUTURE) at the beginning of main before
  --> creating
  -->  > any real-time threads.
  -->  > Is calling mlockall a requirement when using Xenomai?
  --> 
  --> Yes it is.
  --> 
[Robert McCullough] 
OK.
  -->  >
  -->  > I have added a couple of Xenomai tasks to my C++ app.
  -->  > A) Without calling mlockall my application seems to run fine but I
  --> noticed
  -->  > in /proc/xenomai/stat that a few page faults occurred.
  --> 
  --> Well normally your application should stop with a message telling you
  --> that you have not call mlockall. Do you happen to install a handler
  --> for
  --> SIGXCPU ?
[Robert McCullough] 
Yes.
  --> 
  -->  > B) When calling mlockall at the beginning of my main() I do not see
  --> any page
  -->  > faults but some of the C++ threads do not start.
  -->  >
  -->  > Why would mlockall cause some threads not to start?
  --> 
  --> Well, you should check rt_task_create or pthread_create return
  --> value. The usual error is that you run out of memory because of the
  --> stack size problem explained in the TROUBLESHOOTING guide.
  --> 
  --> --
  --> 
  --> 
  -->                                       Gilles.
[Robert McCullough] 
Thanks.
Calling "ulimit -s 2048" before my application in my startup script seems to
work fine when I am running over nfs to the Denx ELDK with a bash shell.
But my application needs to run from a CompactFlash card running BusyBox on
a MPC5200 and BusyBox does not seem to support the "ulimit" command.
Is there another way to set this stack limit size?

Best regards, 
Robert McCullough



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