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Pixymon (Linux) Memory Leak

Pixy Software
#1

Hardware: Parallella-1 (Epiphany-III)
OS: Linaro-nano (Debian 8)
Kernel: Linux 3.12.0-g0bc9c3a-dirty on armv7l

Problem:
I’ve compiled according to that stated on the site (http://www.cmucam.org/projects/cmucam5/wiki/Installing_PixyMon_on_Linux). However, the delay between frames seems to increase rapidly & crashed (< 2 min). After checking TOP, true enough, Pixymon memory usage continues to increase until it reaches >80% before crashing. Is there any way to debug this problem?

#2

Hello Kenichi,
We haven’t used the Parallela platform, but it sounds like it’s having problems rendering the frames from PixyMon fast enough. Does it have any graphics acceleration in the X server?

I would run PixyMon on a platform such as a PC with mature graphics support.

Hope this helps!

Edward

#3

Thanks Edward.

The Parallella-I does not have gpu. But would that be the main cause of memory leak?

I’ve tried Pixymon on Ubuntu 14.04 (within VirtualBox). Installation went smoothly & I could launch Pixymon but it kept detecting & undetecting the camera (https://youtu.be/QWybh1HnPpc). Has Pixymon been tested on other distributions besides Mint?

Thanks.