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Offline vext01

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submitqc in picore 17.x uses more ram than before?
« on: September 06, 2026, 03:28:49 PM »
Hi,

Sorry for this barrage of "maybe bug reports".

I was just updating the tmux extension for rpi32 and went to run the `submitqc` step and got:

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tc@box:~/tc_extensions/tmux$ make qc
cd /home/tc/tc_extensions/tmux/work/proj && sh /home/tc/tc_extensions/tmux/work/submitqc/submitqc --libs

==============================================================
This is the Tiny Core extension submission quality testing tool.

see --help for usage instructions.

Release: 20241219
==============================================================

Checking against Core release 17.x on armhf / 6.18.37-piCore

submitqc: loading required extensions ... Done.
submitqc: removing old log files. Ok.
submitqc: making space for new log files. Done.
submitqc: checking http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/ (timeout 3 sec) ... Connected!
submitqc: fetching info.lst.gz and dep.db.gz ... Ok.

submitqc: tmux.tcz checks begin =====
submitqc: tmux.tcz squashfs tree has files in it? Total memory requested is more than 75% of physical memory.
Unsquashfs uses memory to cache data from disk to optimise performance.
It is pointless to ask it to use more than this amount of memory, as this
causes thrashing and it is thus self-defeating.
FATAL ERROR: Requested memory size too large
Ok.
submitqc: tmux.tcz info similar to others in repository?
        There are similar named extensions in repo:
        tmux
        Ensure there are no conflicts between tmux.tcz and other extensions.
submitqc: tmux.tcz dep file compared to repository copy?        Ok.
submitqc: tmux.tcz dependencies exist?
        libevent.tcz: found in repository.
        ncurses.tcz: found in repository.
        Done.
submitqc: tmux.tcz mountable? mkdir: cannot create directory ‘tmux.submitqc.9c98’: Permission denied
mount: mounting /dev/loop74 on tmux.submitqc.9c98 failed: No such file or directory
Error mounting - remake.
Passed mount check.
submitqc: tmux.tcz correct block size? Not in 4096 block size. Extension will be rebuilt.
...

Looks like problems start with "Total memory requested is more than 75% of physical memory.".

FWIW:
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tc@box:~/tc_extensions/tmux$ free -h
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         427.1M       46.0M      277.5M       25.1M      103.5M      345.5M
Swap:         95.3M           0       95.3M

What do you reckon?

Offline vext01

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Re: submitqc in picore 17.x uses more ram than before?
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2026, 03:31:24 PM »
Forgot to say. I didn't see this when I made the initial tmux extension for rpi32 on 16.x.