I am wondering just how viable a Pico W is as a web or wireless server. This is from my trivial web server ... The 'Shrink' are calls to garbage collection, showing before and after results. The surprise for me was that I have 120 KB free (77%) when I start formulating a reply but just 12 KB free (7%) once that reply has been sent.
This was a fairly simple reply and inevitably more complex ones crash and burn with out of memory.
I am not doing anything too complex in my code that I can see, but can perhaps rewrite to be more memory efficient. And I can throw more garbage collection in there - which seems to be the approach most have taken as they frantically try to get things to work.
I would like to get it to work, am prepared to start digging into how things work, where memory is being used, finding alternative approaches, because I can't see any reason a MicroPython web server shouldn't be able to serve up a 1 MB file.
But am I on a hiding to nowhere ?
What are other people's opinions and experiences of using a Pico W in anger ?
Code:
11:29:37 : Shrink : 52% Used -------- +++++++ Free 48% 76 KB11:29:37 : 23% Used ---- +++++++++++ Free 77% 122 KB11:29:37 : Waiting for connection11:29:59 : Connection from 192.168.0.205 port 5025311:30:00 : Handle request11:30:00 : HTTP_GET /11:30:00 : Shrink : 39% Used ------ +++++++++ Free 61% 95 KB11:30:00 : 23% Used ---- +++++++++++ Free 77% 120 KB11:30:00 : Creating reply11:30:00 : Sent reply11:30:00 : Shrink : 93% Used -------------- + Free 7% 12 KB11:30:00 : 29% Used ----- ++++++++++ Free 71% 112 KB11:30:00 : Waiting for connectionThis was a fairly simple reply and inevitably more complex ones crash and burn with out of memory.
I am not doing anything too complex in my code that I can see, but can perhaps rewrite to be more memory efficient. And I can throw more garbage collection in there - which seems to be the approach most have taken as they frantically try to get things to work.
I would like to get it to work, am prepared to start digging into how things work, where memory is being used, finding alternative approaches, because I can't see any reason a MicroPython web server shouldn't be able to serve up a 1 MB file.
But am I on a hiding to nowhere ?
What are other people's opinions and experiences of using a Pico W in anger ?
Statistics: Posted by hippy — Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:54 am