[OE-core] [PATCH 03/13] qemu: switch to '-vga std' emulated hardware from vmware/cirrus for x86/mips

[Changqing Li]

On 10/10/19 6:02 PM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 at 08:16, Changqing Li <changqing.li at windriver.com 
> <mailto:changqing.li at windriver.com>> wrote:
>
>     After switch from -vga vmware to -vga std (use qemux86-64),  start
>     image by "runqemu nographic",
>
>     Memory used by process Xorg raised a lot,   for my image,   from
>     ~%7 to ~%34 (check by ps aux --sort -rss)
>
>     also check memory by command "systemctl status xserver-nodm", 
>     raised from ~60M to ~120M.
>
>     with the high raise of memory usage of Xorg, when run oe-test on
>     the target,  OOM is happened like:
>
>     [ 1038.221438]*Out of memory*: Killed process 180 (Xorg)
>     total-vm:335368kB, anon-rss:68824kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:140kB
>
>
>     Also test with poky distro,  and image core-image-sato, also
>     installed procps.
>
>     1. "ps aux --sort -rss":  Xorg from  ~3.6%  to ~ 17.4%
>
>     2. "systemctl status xserver-nodm":  from ~65M to ~131M
>
>
>     Any idea about how to resolve this problem?  do we really need
>     unify all boards to -vga=std? Thanks.
>
>
> The increased memory usage is due to glamor loading the full 3D stack, 
> mesa and friends. You can drop opengl from DISTRO_FEATURES, or 
> otherwise disable glamor in xorg recipe via PACKAGECONFIG.
>
> Or you can bump the available RAM for your image like is already done 
> for core-image-sato.
>
> Alex

Thanks!

Sandy

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