Heap Size

[Joel Sherrill]

peter.o.mueller at gmx.de wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> in my linker script I use to following settings for heap and stack:
> 
> ...
> _HeapSize : 0x0;
> _StackSize: 10000;
> ...
> 
> As far as I remember rtems calculates what is left for heap from total mem -
> stack. So the zero is ok. But how can I tune the stack figure. Is the figure
> specified here the total amount of stack for all tasks?

No.  It is just the size of the startup/initialization stack.  10K
is almost certainly at least 5 times too large. :)

> How can I estimate the StackSize? Is it like:
> number of tasks * stack_per_task + what_rtems_needs?

That's basically it.  RTEMS does not need any stack except
what it uses as a normal side-effect of subroutine calls.
The m68k has a dedicated interrupt stack so very little
task context is saved on a task stack on an ISR.

> Peter
> 
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