Large Heap Size Breaks Live Watch (FreeRTOS)

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    bflannery
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    I have 16MB of external SDRAM I use for my heap. When I expand the “Heap” section in the “FreeRTOS” tab of the “Live Watch” window it breaks live watch completely and no longer updates.

    #35341
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    Keymaster

    Hi,

    The heap view in Live Watch is indeed designed for much smaller heaps that would typically fit into the on-chip SRAM and can be polled at a reasonable rate. Reading out 16MB of SDRAM over a typical JTAG connection would indeed take several minutes, and would not be really practical.

    #35344
    bflannery
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    Understood. I figured that would be the case. I just thought I would let you know that the way it fails is not a good experience and impacts the other aspects of debugging. I will avoid expanding that section myself moving forward, but I imagine I won’t be the last person to run into this.

    #35346
    support
    Keymaster

    No problem. We will monitor the feedback from other users and will consider adding a warning if others encounter the same issue.

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