Re: [Xenomai-help] switchtest fails with pthread_create: Cannot allocate memory

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> when I try to run "switchtest" from the test-suite, I get the error
> 
>   "pthread_create: Cannot allocate memory"
> 
> on my MPC5200 PowerPC board. Some resource is exhausted and likely it's
> system memory. I already realized heavy memory usage by threads using
> the Xenomai POSIX skin. 
> 
> -bash-3.2# free      
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         61280      12044      49236          0          0       5796
> 
> -bash-3.2# ./switchtest rtk0 rtk0 rtup0 rtup0 rtus0 rtus0 rtuo0
> 
> -bash-3.2# free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         61280      59700       1580          0          0       3932
> 
> Any idea what could cause the exhaustive use of memory? Is it the same on
> x86? This test was  done with Linux 2.6.26 i-Pipe 2.2-07 and Xenomai 2.4.x
> but it's the same with trunk.

It not is the stack size problem described in TROUBLESHOOTING ?

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                                                 Gilles.