High RAM Application Questions

[Dave_couling]

According to the *.map file the .bss (RAM) usage for my Application is 0x16b8 or 5816 bytes. This is obviously a very high RAM Application, likely due to the abundance of app_timers I use. I am using SDK6.1 and SD7.1. I want to make sure I'm not going to run into RAM issues at RUN-TIME. With this RAM spec in the .map file do I need to modify the gcc_startup_nrf51.s ? Or modify any other files to account for this RAM usage? Any other considerations I should be mindful of? Thank you for your advisement Nordic.

-DC

[RK]

Don't totally understand the question. If the app links without error and fits in the available space, it works, the link script has a check for this. The startup file is entirely generic and just copies things from one place to another, it doesn't matter if it copies 1 byte, 10 bytes or 16Kb.

What issues were you concerned about, perhaps I'm just missing the point?

That is a lot of RAM usage, the map file should tell you what it's all used for, although they're annoyingly tricky to read, you might want to confirm to yourself that it is app timer usage (they use that much??) and not something else.

[Dave_couling]

My question was specifically about run-time RAM usage. The project compiles, links and programs fine. But since I've designedd such a RAM heavy application I was to make sure I have enough headroom for whatever is happening during run-time. I've set my APP_TIMER_MAX to 4 above what I actually use, and set the queue to 2 more than the total number of app_timers, just to be sure.

More than anything I just want to make sure there isn't some consideration i should be making when using so many app_timers (besides the obvious ones like settings the max, and using the scheduler). Thanks for the reply RK