[etc-users] Re: [etc]: ETC-0.1.3patch released

[Chris K. <ch...@ck...>]

> > > the code tonight, and see if I can't get a more robust version running.  I
> > > have a feeling this is caused by a lack of disk space to store the PNG
> > > temporarily.. but I need to add some debug code to prove it.
> >
> > I would think it's more likely a permissions problem, since I have a
> > few GB of free disk space. I'll check the permissions, and if I don't
> > have write enabled, I'll enable them, and will post my results.
> 
> 
> Sorry.. I didn't explain that clearly.  At the moment ETC downloads the
> PNG file from the webserver and saves it into a file in /tmp on the
> Citadel.  Then libpng reads that file and displays it to the screen.  I
> suspect the problem is limited space on /tmp.  Since the citadel has no
> internal harddisk /tmp is an internal ramdisk, and is tiny (about 300k).

Hmm... How difficult is it to tweak the size? And maybe my setup is part of the problem? 

I have a set of 4MB SIMMs in the Citadel, using 12MB of the 16MB (I was never able to figure out how to use all 16MB and still have the Citadel boot to the DOS image that was in flash). Maybe I should revert back to the original 4MB of memory (1MB SIMMs), reset the memory size, and try again. 
 
> What I should do is rewrite ETC to stream the file to memory, that would
> remove the need for temp space and probably speed things up as well.
> 
> So no write permission are needed on the webserver, and the webserver only
> needs enough disk space to store the demo.php file.

Interesting.
 
> I'll let you know how it goes tommorrow.

I'll do the same.

Thanks,
Chris

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Chris Kalisiak
CK Computer Systems
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Specializing in DEC hardware since 1993