Hi Felix
Thanks for clarifying. I've also noticed what appears to be a memory
leak in my latest build as well which I am working on drilling down
now. After a couple days of uptime the device is out of memory. It's
much more pronounced when doing downloads with many connections
simultaneously.
So all that said, yes I do agree there is always more bloat with each
kernel update sadly. I'm busy now doing builds with both uclibc and
musl and will be interested to see the size comparisons. Will take
several hours so will report back in the morning (Australian time)
Cheers
On 27/08/15 19:33, Felix Fietkau wrote:
On 2015-08-27 01:48, Adam Kuklycz wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering why OpenWRT switched to musl -- is it purely because
uclibc hasn't actually maintained their code properly?
That's only part of the reason. Aside from the maintainenance, the code
quality of uClibc is also poor compared to musl.
musl also has better runtime performance and uses less RAM.
One of the things I have noticed since the CC trunk builds I did with
kernel 3.18.11 + uclibc is that the image sizes have ballooned out by a
fair bit.
For example, a build on trunk r45705 which uses uclibc and kernel
3.18.11 would allow for most features to be included in a build e.g.
openvpn, luci + ssl support, more connecting protocols than just pppoe
and so on with a router sporting 8MB of flash.
Now with recent trunk builds, with musl and kernel 4.1.x, I've had to
cut features considerably just to make it fit. Just adding openvpn with
openssl support means that an image prior that built at 7MB would
balloon out to 8MB which would mean that the image would not be produced
as it is too big.
Last time I compared musl vs uClibc images, the size difference was
neglegible. I'd say it's more likely that the switch to Linux 4.1 caused
the size increase (the kernel does get more bloated with each new release).
- Felix
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