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    [PI3B+ & Retropie 4.4.4] Limit on Roms stored?

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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator @magicfly
      last edited by mitu

      @magicfly As I said in my first post - do you have enough memory available ?
      There might be an error be in the /dev/shm/runcommand.log file, check that file also. ES launches Runcommand, but Runcommand is unable to start the game

      lvl2: /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS fba /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fba/1942a.zip
      lvl1: ...launch terminated with nonzero exit code -1!
      
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      • magicflyM
        magicfly @mitu
        last edited by magicfly

        @mitu Hi, there's no runcommand. log in that folder so i think that file hasn't been written because the rom hasn't launched at all. any other thing i can check?

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator @magicfly
          last edited by

          @magicfly You can check the system log, via dmesg, if there are any OOM errors or other process starting warnings.

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          • ClydeC
            Clyde @mitu
            last edited by

            @mitu said in [PI3B+ & Retropie 4.4.4] Limit on Roms stored?:

            @magicfly You can check the system log, via dmesg, if there are any OOM errors or other process starting warnings.

            @magicfly In addition to that, you can use grep to show only those lines of dmesg that contain a specific term. Examples from my Pi's Retropie:

            $ dmesg | grep warning
            [    4.826054] random: 7 urandom warning(s) missed due to ratelimiting
            $ dmesg | grep memory
            [    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
            [    0.001599] Disabling memory control group subsystem
            [    0.176509] BCM2708FB: allocated DMA memory ef910000
            [    0.263815] vc-sm: Videocore shared memory driver
            [    1.217152] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1024K
            

            Just type dmesg | grep and the word(s) you want grep to search for in dmesg's output.

            The vertical bar is the Unix Pipeline, also called "pipe", that passes the output of one command (here: dmesg) to another (here: grep).

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator
              last edited by

              What @Clyde said :). What I usually do is clear the log buffer with sudo dmesg -c, try to reproduce the error condition, then run dmesg again just to see the new added messages.

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              • ClydeC
                Clyde @mitu
                last edited by

                @mitu Nice tip! I will try to remember it in the future.

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                • magicflyM
                  magicfly
                  last edited by

                  something has changed..now i can't enter into emulationstation.
                  the HDD seems to load a lot and after some minutes from ES splash, the pi quits to the retropie bash with "KILLED" message.
                  what does it mean? it's a timeout? is there a way to modify this timeout?
                  Thanks

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @magicfly
                    last edited by

                    @magicfly Looks like the OOM killer kicked in.

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                    • magicflyM
                      magicfly @mitu
                      last edited by

                      @mitu said in [PI3B+ & Retropie 4.4.4] Limit on Roms stored?:

                      @magicfly Looks like the OOM killer kicked in.

                      i get this log via dmesg:

                      https://pastebin.com/aGbZfiDb

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator @magicfly
                        last edited by

                        @magicfly Yes, the dmesg shows ES being killed for using too much memory - which I've kept repeating since you've brought up this topic in the first place.

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                        • magicflyM
                          magicfly @mitu
                          last edited by

                          @mitu than you so much. so all these roms are to heavy for the pie...time to free resources..
                          thanks again!

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