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debayering memory error

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Hi

I’ve had a number of crashes while focusing (might be due to problems identified elsewhere) so was looking in the logs and saw this weird error message L-


[2022-11-25T20:42:52.804 GMT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capturing 60.000-second image..."
[2022-11-25T20:42:52.945 GMT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Sony DSLR Alpha-A7r II (Control) : "[INFO] Starting 60 seconds exposure. "
[2022-11-25T20:43:57.875 GMT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Sony DSLR Alpha-A7r II (Control) : "[INFO] Exposure done, downloading image... "
[2022-11-25T20:43:58.928 GMT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - "FITS" file saved to "/home/astroberry/AstroPhoto/SONYA7RII/Light/M33__Light_60_secs_2022-11-25T20-43-58_073.fits"
[2022-11-25T20:43:59.650 GMT CRIT ][ org.kde.kstars.fits] - Debayed memory allocation failure. Required Memory: "102.0 MiB" Available system memory: 1.30541e+09
[2022-11-25T20:43:59.663 GMT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Download Time: 0.85 s, New Download Time Estimate: 1.19 s.

Not sure why it’s complaining about lack of memory while saying it’s got plenty. I’ve not actually noticed any problem but then I wouldn’t have been watching the fits viewer that closely.

This is on astroberry so not the latest release others are playing with as it’s stuck on 32bit currently. This is on a 4gb Pi with kstars/ekos/indi/phd2/fits viewer running. Doesn’t appear to run low on memory nor cpu.

Wondering if anyone else had run into this and whether it’s actually a problem?
Last edit: 1 year 4 months ago by Nigel Dunmore. Reason: fix quoting so text shows
1 year 4 months ago #88571

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Hi Nigel,

I had the same problem with my RPi4 4GB running on 32 bit when I switched from my ASI294MC to a Touptec 571 with significantly more pixels. Often crashed during debayering in the FITS viewer.

Quick solution was to deactivate debayering in the viewer. Then I switched to 64 bit and a RPi4 8GB which solved it completely. I think 64 bit + RPi4 4GB will do as well. Had to build myself, don’t know if there is a 64 bit Astroberry image available now (I don’t have the RPi anymore).

CS, Bernd
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Yes there used to be various problems with the fits viewer but most of these seem to have been either fixed or my switching off sound notifications. I don’t actually see/notice a crash so maybe there’s some intermittent problem. I will turn off auto debayering in the fits setup just in case.

Astroberry is still at 32bit with the update to 64bit being worked on I believe. Silver lining of that cloud is I’m stuck pre-optical train on a reasonably stable build which my constant apt updating cannot mess up :)
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