2019-07-21, 22:06
Due to my bad WiFi connection, I chose very high values for the cache/memorysize in the advancedsettings of 3GB, which I found empirically to fill the complete RAM of my machine in video streams.
I now discovered, that this causes the error message "Could not connect to repository" whenever I try to open an addon repository, which I installed from zip previously.
When opening the repository, I get the error log
Without the buffer settings. There is no error and the repository can be opened:
Links to logs: With big buffer and with error; with default buffer without error.
It seems, that the command
I am now wondering: Is this a bug or some part of a feature? In my understanding, loading and installing of addons/repositories should be independent of cache sizes for watching videos.
Unfortunately, the whole video buffering and size of the buffer memory seems to be highly dependent on the operating system and not very well documented. This makes it difficult to select the appropriate values. Debugging this problem took me hours because I first suspected wrong versions of python dependencies from python-pip and the problem does not seem related to the cache settings in the first place.
If it matters: I use Kodi 18.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 with Kernel 4.7.0-040700-generic with the debian and pip packages of July 2019.
I have 3.2GB of RAM available of the physical 4GB in total, because it is shared with the graphics chip of the AMD A6-6400K APU.
I put this on the Linux board since I suspect it to be Linux-specific, but did not test other OS.
I now discovered, that this causes the error message "Could not connect to repository" whenever I try to open an addon repository, which I installed from zip previously.
When opening the repository, I get the error log
Code:
2019-07-21 11:26:44.978 T:140200971208448 DEBUG: CAddonDatabase: SELECT repo.id FROM repo .. took 1 ms
2019-07-21 11:26:44.978 T:140200971208448 DEBUG: CAddonDatabase: no valid repository matching 'repository.marcelveldt'
2019-07-21 11:26:44.978 T:140202008225536 DEBUG: CRepositoryUpdateJob[repository.marcelveldt] checking for updates.
2019-07-21 11:26:44.978 T:140202008225536 DEBUG: CFileCache::Open - opening <marcelveldt/repository.marcelveldt/master/addons.xml.md5> using cache
2019-07-21 11:26:44.978 T:140202008225536 DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0x7f833806c300) https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcelveldt/repository.marcelveldt/master/addons.xml.md5
2019-07-21 11:26:44.979 T:140202008225536 INFO: easy_acquire - Created session to https://raw.githubusercontent.com
2019-07-21 11:26:45.076 T:140203075889536 DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogBusy.xml) ------
2019-07-21 11:26:45.079 T:140202008225536 DEBUG: Curl::Debug - TEXT: Trying 151.101.112.133...
2019-07-21 11:26:45.096 T:140202008225536 DEBUG: Curl::Debug - TEXT: Connected to raw.githubusercontent.com (151.101.112.133) port 443 (#0)
2019-07-21 11:26:45.096 T:140202008225536 DEBUG: Curl::Debug - TEXT: ALPN, offering http/1.1
....
2019-07-21 11:26:45.157 T:140202008225536 DEBUG: Curl::Debug - HEADER_IN: Expires: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 09:31:45 GMT
2019-07-21 11:26:45.157 T:140202008225536 DEBUG: Curl::Debug - HEADER_IN: Source-Age: 70
2019-07-21 11:26:45.157 T:140202008225536 DEBUG: Curl::Debug - TEXT: Connection #0 to host raw.githubusercontent.com left intact
2019-07-21 11:26:45.157 T:140202008225536 ERROR: Open - Unhandled exception
2019-07-21 11:26:45.157 T:140202008225536 ERROR: Open - Error opening https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcelveldt/repository.marcelveldt/master/addons.xml.md5
2019-07-21 11:26:45.157 T:140202008225536 ERROR: CRepository: failed read 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcelveldt/repository.marcelveldt/master/addons.xml.md5'
2019-07-21 11:26:45.167 T:140202008225536 DEBUG: CRepositoryUpdater: done.Code:
2019-07-21 11:28:01.359 T:140370556176128 DEBUG: Curl::Debug - HEADER_IN: Source-Age: 146
2019-07-21 11:28:01.360 T:140370556176128 DEBUG: Curl::Debug - TEXT: Connection #0 to host raw.githubusercontent.com left intact
2019-07-21 11:28:01.360 T:140369193838336 DEBUG: Thread FileCache start, auto delete: false
2019-07-21 11:28:01.361 T:140369193838336 INFO: CFileCache::Process - Source read didn't return any data! Hit eof(?)It seems, that the command
CFileCache::Open - opening <.../addons.xml.md5> using cache tries to use the 3GB cache for the 1KB file and then crashes perhaps due to memory allocation errors.I am now wondering: Is this a bug or some part of a feature? In my understanding, loading and installing of addons/repositories should be independent of cache sizes for watching videos.
Unfortunately, the whole video buffering and size of the buffer memory seems to be highly dependent on the operating system and not very well documented. This makes it difficult to select the appropriate values. Debugging this problem took me hours because I first suspected wrong versions of python dependencies from python-pip and the problem does not seem related to the cache settings in the first place.
If it matters: I use Kodi 18.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 with Kernel 4.7.0-040700-generic with the debian and pip packages of July 2019.
I have 3.2GB of RAM available of the physical 4GB in total, because it is shared with the graphics chip of the AMD A6-6400K APU.
I put this on the Linux board since I suspect it to be Linux-specific, but did not test other OS.
