I’m running a Raspberry Pi 3 with a WPE based signage solution, where my users can set up a series of screens that run as a slideshow. Each screen is a webpage that loads via AJAX and is injected into the document. I have experienced that if my RPi ever runs out of memory the system reboots. This i…

I’m also wondering if it’s possible to setup a swapfile (or otherwise increase the memory limit). I have a container that may run out of memory when compiling some larger projects during development in local mode. I haven’t tried this yet, but it looks related: Create a swap file

I have this in my dockerfile. I believe I got it from the Screenly OSE edition. It creates a temporary file storage facility # By default docker gives us 64MB of shared memory size but to display heavy # pages we need more. umount /dev/shm && mount -t tmpfs shm /dev/shm

My use case may be a little different, so I figured I should clarify :slight_smile: I’m running out of memory while performing a build on a device in local mode via: balena push <device-ip> I’m hoping to avoid running out of memory by using a swapfile (or other ideas) during the build phase.

@eCustic Hey there! Setting a swap file mitigates the problem but I don’t think its an actual solution, plus it’d make your app really slow. It sounds like you should be able to tweak your application so it only stores a maximum amount of content at any given time. For example, the signage app can …

Hey @wlisac , Do you mind opening a new thread so we can help you out with that? :slight_smile:

@jviotti no problem :slight_smile: Running out of memory during build via balena local push

Is it possible to setup swap on resin.io / ResinOS?

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wlisac May 14, 2019, 12:55am 9

@jviotti no problem Running out of memory during build via balena local push

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Is it possible to setup swap on resin.io / ResinOS?

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