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| author | Paul Sokolovsky <pfalcon@users.sourceforge.net> | 2017-01-04 10:15:03 +0300 |
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| committer | Paul Sokolovsky <pfalcon@users.sourceforge.net> | 2017-01-04 10:33:48 +0300 |
| commit | 52c19875a4e9a95920e844b83a104997639bba2f (patch) | |
| tree | 6c8263c8a3b47b60d1180ca3a2ba0ba09300ae8d | |
| parent | 54ea10a76ae0b5406a558a87c346224f57500cfb (diff) | |
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esp8266/general: Add "Scarcity of runtime resources" section.
With warnings of need to close files, sockets, etc.
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diff --git a/docs/esp8266/general.rst b/docs/esp8266/general.rst index 04afed46ed..cd659f80a9 100644 --- a/docs/esp8266/general.rst +++ b/docs/esp8266/general.rst @@ -58,6 +58,17 @@ For your convenience, some of technical specifications are provided below: and always-available BootROM bootloader, ESP8266 is not brickable. +Scarcity of runtime resources +----------------------------- + +ESP8266 has very modest resources (first of all, RAM memory). So, please +avoid allocating too big container objects (lists, dictionaries) and +buffers. There is also no full-fledged OS to keep track of resources +and automatically clean them up, so that's the task of a user/user +application: please be sure to close open files, sockets, etc. as soon +as possible after use. + + Boot process ------------ |