Maximum number of messages in a message queue ?

[joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com (Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp dot com>)]

Rolf Schroedter wrote:
> RTEMS 4.6, leon-sparc
> 
> Is there a maximum number of messages in a message queue ?
> I'm asking, because I'm failing to create a message queue
> with 150000 messages, 8 bytes each (error code=5: "too many").
> Creating the same queue with ~130000 messages succeeds.
> Increasing the starting stackpointer (should increase the heap ?)
> doesn't help.

The message buffers do not come from the heap, they come from
the RTEMS workspace.  If you are using confdefs.h, then
set CONFIGURE_MEMORY_OVERHEAD to something to account for
the huge amount of memory your messages are consuming.

What are you doing with that many messages in a queue?  What
are you doing with the queue?  It would seem that if you
really had that many messages in the queue, it would take
a long time to process them.  Just curious.

> Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks and regards,
> Rolf.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------
> Rolf Schroedter
> German Aerospace Center
> Institute of Planetary Research
> D-12489 Berlin, Rutherfordstrasse 2
> Tel/Fax:  (+49) (30) 67055-416/384
> Email:    Rolf.Schroedter at dlr.de


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