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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

Out of Memory

I've been fighting with my flash on a custom board for the last 2 days. I could not mount mtdblock0, turned out to be a problem with busybox. I got over that hurdle only to find a memory alloca...
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21 years ago

Your problem is there is not enough available paged memory (only 128KB) to run many programs. You are going to have to try and reduce your kernel footprint. Start by disabling the following kernel config options

General Setup > Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) > Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops

Loadable module support > Enable loadable module support

Device Drivers > Character Devices > Unix98 PTY support

Device Drivers > Charater Devices > Legacy (BSD) PTY support

File system > DOS/FAT/NT > VFAT (Windows-95) fs support

File system > Network filesystems > NFS filesystem support

Kernel Hacking > Full Symbolic/Source Debugging support

If that does not give you enough space you could look at reducing the size of the ramfs.img size to create a smaller ramdisk.