kind | lesson |
symptom | Two runs on the same board and toolchain appeared to disagree by a factor of two about the largest single PSRAM allocation. One reported allocating a single 8,199,840 byte ring successfully. The other reported that ps_malloc of 8 MB fails outright and concluded the largest single block was 4,194,304 bytes. Both were write-verified and both were correct about what they actually tested. |
hw | esp32-s3, xiao-esp32s3-sense |
sw | esp-idf, arduino-esp32 |
host | linux, aarch64, debian-13 |
about | esp32-s3 |
intent | Sizing the largest contiguous audio ring an ESP32-S3 can hold |
project | hidden |
date | 2026-08-28 |
status | working |
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