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    Emulationstation crashed and Cannot allocate memory on pi4

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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator @quicksilver
      last edited by

      @quicksilver said in Emulationstation crashed and Cannot allocate memory on pi4:

      Could this cause an issue?

      I don't think so - the end result is still a png image that EmulationStation loads, artwork.xml is just a set of design instructions for Skyscraper of how to produce that image from the cached artwork, it doesn't influence how EmulationStation loads or displays the resulting image.

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      • quicksilverQ
        quicksilver @mitu
        last edited by

        @mitu Yea, I didnt think it should be a problem either except that is the only other thing that I changed on my pi 3 and now its crashing as well.

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator
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          Still can't get a crash. Let's see how we can further progress.

          • can you try with view mode set to 'detail' (i.e. no 'video') to see if the lack of marquees has any impact ?
          • can you upload the gamelist.xml and the media folder (generated by Skyscraper) for your PSP system - temporarily - so I can have an identical gamelist/system for PSP ?
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          • ByteThisB
            ByteThis
            last edited by ByteThis

            I had a similar problem one time a few months ago when I was editing my gamelist.xml for SNES. I was manually editing it for an image and metadata and incorrectly edited the gamelist.xml and when I tried to start any rom in SNES, ES would crash. I fixed the editing correctly and had no more crashes. Not sure if this is relevant to your situation but thought I would mention it. (As my rom would start and I would play it..then it would crash).

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            • quicksilverQ
              quicksilver @mitu
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              @mitu https://mega.nz/#F!kJBnBSZZ!j-L65dDeg6kYNE09Ry7tQg

              Ill also try detail view as you suggest

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              • quicksilverQ
                quicksilver @ByteThis
                last edited by

                @ByteThis I havent done any manual edits so I dont think its the same issue.

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                • mituM
                  mitu Global Moderator
                  last edited by

                  Can you also upload the downloaded media from ~/.emulationstation/downloaded_media/psp ? I though they were in your system folder, but they're not. For some reason, trying to scrape the filenames in the gamelist only gets the info for about 1/3 of them.

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                  • quicksilverQ
                    quicksilver @mitu
                    last edited by

                    @mitu I linked that in my above post already

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator
                      last edited by

                      Sorry, I realized during testing that the images are present in the upload, it's just the gamelist file that references the different location. You can delete the uploaded files.

                      Unfortunately, I still can't reproduce the crash. Obviously, my games are 'fake' files, but launching them starts PPSSPP. I tried with both themes (Carbon/Nostalgic-Neo).

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                      • quicksilverQ
                        quicksilver @mitu
                        last edited by

                        @mitu thanks for trying. This issue is really puzzling. There must be something else unique to my setup causing the issue. I think I'm going to have to re-image.

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                          rejesterd
                          last edited by rejesterd

                          This is a memory leak related to launching PSP games from emulationstation. I can't reproduce the crash like you're seeing, but I can definitely see RSS usage increase consistently after repeatedly launch a PSP game. You can confirm this by running..

                          while :; do ps --sort -rss -eo rss,pid,command | grep emulationstation\/emulationstation$; sleep 1; done
                          

                          The first column of output is the RSS usage. For me, it consistently keeps going up when I re-launch the same psp game over and over. That doesn't happen with other games (PSX, for example).

                          Not sure why you're seeing a crash so early, but maybe your ES RSS usage is growing beyond whatever the configured limit is.

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                          • quicksilverQ
                            quicksilver @rejesterd
                            last edited by

                            @rejesterd Im guessing that is a different issue. I just had another crash, this time launching a dreamcast game. I had gameslist view set to detailed. I cant seem to nail down what is causing this issue. Can you tell me what firmware/kernel version you are on by running:

                            uname -a
                            
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                              rejesterd
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                              Linux raspberrypi 4.19.93-v7l+ #1290 SMP Fri Jan 10 16:45:11 GMT 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux
                              

                              But yeah, if it's also happening with dreamcast, then the issue is probably not specific to PSP.. maybe it's just that the leak with ES & PSP makes the crash occur faster.

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                              • quicksilverQ
                                quicksilver @rejesterd
                                last edited by

                                @rejesterd Im on 4.19.97-v7l+. Im going to try rolling back and seeing if that helps. If not I guess Im going to have to re-image...

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                                • mituM
                                  mitu Global Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  @quicksilver - what 4b model do you have ? If it's memory leak related, might not happen so fast on my model (the 4Gb one).
                                  4.19.97-v7l+ is the latest/current Raspbian kernel version, but it was released more than 1 month ago (2020-02-13 was the installation date on my system).

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                                    rejesterd
                                    last edited by

                                    Yeah I'm also using the 4g model, for reference.

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                                    • quicksilverQ
                                      quicksilver @mitu
                                      last edited by

                                      @mitu mine is the 2gb version. If you are also on the same kernel then I guess we can rule that out. I guess that makes sense since my pi 3 which was rock stable now has stability issues and its on raspbian stretch. The only two things I changed on my pi 3 were switching to nostalgia-neo and using my latest skyscraper gameslist modifications. So I feel it has to be related to them in some way. I might try restoring skyscraper gameslist default settings and testing that out, maybe its a memory related issue.

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                                        rejesterd
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                                        Even 2g should be plenty, but I would at least confirm how much RSS emulationstation is using (especially when the crash happens).

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                                        • EfriimE
                                          Efriim
                                          last edited by Efriim

                                          What is the resolution you have set with runcommand psp and dreamcast? And which display port are you using?

                                          I got 4.5.4 installed over raspbian. Using outer hdmi port. Default runcommands.
                                          Inner hdmi port has got a tty (I'm not so sure about the setup but ES doesn't display here), changing res just doesnt work for me and throws errors.

                                          Did you try rolling back the kernel?

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                                          • quicksilverQ
                                            quicksilver @Efriim
                                            last edited by

                                            @Efriim PSP runcommand display is set to 720p Dreamcast is set to 1080p. Though I don't see how this would cause any issues. Emulation station crashes randomly on many different systems. Even going into retropie setup it occasionally crashes. I haven't rolled back my kernel yet because it looks like the version I'm using is stable for others. I'm undoing the changes I made in skyscraper as a last test. Everything else I have done, and the crashing continues. If this doesn't work I'm going to have to re-image.

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