uClinux 2.4.19 with 8MByte limit

Mike,

Which memory allocator are you using ?


Any more detail on "hangs the OS" ?


assuming it's a problem in that kernel version and not something else...

regards,

The config.uClibc file in my vendor direcotry contains the line:
    MALLOC = malloc
I did try malloc-930716 and malloc-simple, it did not solve the problem.



The decoded kysmoops details are as follows:


Trace; 0004430e <sys_select+2c2/3a8>
Trace; 00022c4e <old_select+0/36>
Trace; 00022c80 <old_select+32/36>
Trace; 00023d22 <system_call+96/d4>

Code;  000380e6 <fget+1e/32>
00000000 <_PC>:
Code;  000380e6 <fget+1e/32>   <=====
   0:   2030 1c00         movel %a0@(00000000,%d1:l:4),%d0   <=====
Code;  000380ea <fget+22/32>
   4:   4a80              tstl %d0
Code;  000380ec <fget+24/32>
   6:   6708              beqs 10 <_PC+0x10> 000380f6 <fget+2e/32>
Code;  000380ee <fget+26/32>
   8:   2240              moveal %d0,%a1
Code;  000380f0 <fget+28/32>
   a:   41e9 0014         lea %a1@(20),%a0
Code;  000380f4 <fget+2c/32>
   e:   5290              addql #1,%a0@
Code;  000380f6 <fget+2e/32>
  10:   4e5e              unlk %fp
Code;  000380f8 <fget+30/32>
  12:   4e75              rts





We have eliminated the possibilty that it is caused by our user apps.
We do have a custom loader based on Motorola's debug code.

Kind regards,
Mike

Maybe you need to increase INITRD size into kernel settings ?

Regards,
Marco Cavallini
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We are not using INITRD.  The boot loader we use does successfully
use the entire 16MBytes of RAM before uClinux is running.

Kind regards,

Mike