gz_open: fork: Cannot allocate memory - when installing ipk's

[dave_uk]

Does this mean the enigma2 is hogging memory?

 PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %VSZ %CPU COMMAND
 1421  1416 root     S     103m 100%   7% /usr/bin/enigma2
 1465  1463 root     R     2980   3%   0% top
 1462   334 root     S     2984   3%   0% telnetd
  105     2 root     SW       0   0%   0% [sched_high]
    6     2 root     SW       0   0%   0% [rcu_kthread]
 1362     1 root     S    13016  12%   0% /usr/softcams/CCcam.2.3.0
  346     1 avahi    S     3692   3%   0% avahi-daemon: running [vusolo.local]
  347   346 avahi    S     3692   3%   0% avahi-daemon: chroot helper
  323     1 messageb S     3048   3%   0% /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
  334     1 root     S     3032   3%   0% /usr/sbin/inetd
  749   334 root     S     2984   3%   0% telnetd
  750   749 root     S     2980   3%   0% -sh
 1463  1462 root     S     2980   3%   0% -sh
  327     1 root     S     2664   3%   0% /usr/sbin/dropbear -r /etc/dropbear/dr
  339     1 root     S     2656   2%   0% /sbin/klogd -n
  337     1 root     S     2656   2%   0% /sbin/syslogd -n -O /var/log/messages
 1416     1 root     S     2656   2%   0% {enigma2.sh} /bin/sh /usr/bin/enigma2.
    1     0 root     S     1916   2%   0% init [3]
  306     2 root     SW       0   0%   0% [cifsd]

[judge]

from my own experience, enigma2 does hog memory, mainly due to plugins.
saying that, the solo does work perfectly for me on a default image install.
I've had one running for months without a reboot.
When you add extra EPG sources it can struggle but a reboot/flash usually fixes any issue.

[dave_uk]

from my own experience, enigma2 does hog memory, mainly due to plugins.
saying that, the solo does work perfectly for me on a default image install.
I've had one running for months without a reboot.
When you add extra EPG sources it can struggle but a reboot/flash usually fixes any issue.

I'm at a loss, all I have installed now is EPG with 1 source and its set to default settings other than that. Also CCcam and some picons. All is working but I cant install any more plug ub unless I enable swap :-\ sounds like some fault. I might redownload the image tomorrow and reflash.

[Larry-G]

I just disabled the swap and the box froze as soon I went to plugings/feeds, I SSH'd and tried to execute "free" to check the memory but:

root@vusolo:~# free
-sh: can't fork
root@vusolo:~#

I have installed more Picons, TSPanel, and the football plugin. Only thing I had installed when I got the forking issue's were cccam 2.3.0 and pre packaged apps, I actually remove image player, imdb and media scanner
Could it be a faulty box ? I didnt get it from WOS as they were out of stock when I wanted one. I got it from ********* who are as reputable. I'm tempted to try Blackhole image but I shouldnt need to, I know VIX should work.

Thanks
Dave

Unlike a lot of other teams who just throw plugins in to the image, most of our included plugins are coded specifically into the image and removing them can it self cause problems, as to memory usage, Linux always uses as much memory as possible as it considers free memory as wasted memory.

try a fresh flash, but dont remove any of the preexisting included plugins, then set up the box one step at a time to see where its going wrong.