Re: [ros-dev] Testing ROS on VMWare With 32MB... Interesting Results

[Hartmut Birr]

Hi,

running ROS in qemu with ctm and taskmgr as application reports the
following memory usage:

MC_CACHE:     3671 pages
MC_USER:      2764 pages
MC_PPOOL:     448 pages
MC_NPPOOL:    4973 pages
Free:         20894 pages
 
PagedPool:    3684 blocks with 1242232 bytes
NonPagedPool: 13298 blocks with 11009752 bytes (283 free blocks with
86312 bytes)

70 blocks with 7358512 bytes from NonPagedPool are used for symbols.

- Hartmut

TwoTailedFox wrote:

>  Been having a poke around, it seems neither LiveCD nor
> BootCD will
> boot into GUI (Using latest HEAD SVN), on 32MB.
>
>
> BootCD will complete first stage installer, but won't boot into GUI to
> load the second stage setup. LiveCD immediately hangs.
>
>
> Now, on VMWare, I use Other/Other as the OS Category, and I've been
> hearing some (like WaxDragon), using Windows XP Professional as the OS
> Category. I obtained a BootCD of 17751 rev, and tried it on the WinXP
> setting, using 32MB. First time I tried it, it hung at copying
> ole32.dll (34%). Second time, I got a STOP error during the file
> transfer. Third time, however, it completed the first stage fine.
>
> The only difference between the Other and WinXP Pro settings is the
> inclusion of a USB Controller. I added one to my "Other" setup, and
> ROS, again, installed fine first time around on 32MB.
>
> Now, for the interesting bit. The error is a pretty constant one, and
> it complains of No Memory Pages Available. It seems just common to the
> GUI, seeing as ROS won't boot on 32MB even once Setup is completed.
> This is the case for both SVN Live and BootCD's.
>
> Something in the GUI is causing a leak
>
>
>   
>