[Interest] memory fragmentation?

Marc Mutz marc.mutz at kdab.com
Wed Aug 22 11:39:35 CEST 2012


On Wednesday August 22 2012, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
> For category 1 (real time, small memory FP) I can only suggest: separate
> the processes. Have one that does the critical stuff in a deterministic
> manner with pre-allocated memory and another process for the display - if
> there is a memory problem in the display process it does not hurt much to
> just kill it, restart and resync with the main process. Yes, that is quite
> a bit of extra effort, but if you have serious worries about this it may be
> a lot easier than making something as complex as Qt predictable. (The one
> time I did program such a tool I even had the critical part in its own
> microcontroller.)

Amen!

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