On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 01:10:13PM +0000, rdiezmail-pulseaudio at yahoo.de wrote: > I'm compiling the client library for an embedded PowerPC target > without shared memory or the like. In fact, the device has much less > memory than a standard PC. > > In this scenario, PA_MEMPOOL_SLOT_SIZE is set to a rather big value in pulsecore/memblock.c : > > #define PA_MEMPOOL_SLOT_SIZE (64*1024) > > That causes allocation of 64 MB at once later on, before establishing > any audio connections to the server. If you're using the client > library's asynchronous interface to play a simple sound say from a > file, you don't need that much memory, do you? How much should I go > for? The memory is *not* allocated, it is only mapped. No actual memory will be used until a client connects (via shared memory), and even then, it's only 64K per client. -- CJ van den Berg mailto:cj at vdbonline.com xmpp:cj at vdbonline.com
