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EnTerr
Roku Guru

"Reader::Impl - circular buffer overflow"?

[This question is outside B/S domain, so i guess for a RokuStar or someone who has experience with non-Basic SDKs on Roku.]

Doing Marmalade development for Roku, sometimes i am seeing on console diagnostics like this:
Reader::Impl - circular buffer overflow - lost 256 events
Reader::Impl - circular buffer overflow - lost 256 events
[...]
Reader::Impl - circular buffer overflow - lost 768 events
Reader::Impl - circular buffer overflow - lost 1024 events
Reader::Impl - circular buffer overflow - lost 512 events
Reader::Impl - circular buffer overflow - lost 1536 events
Reader::Impl - circular buffer overflow - lost 4352 events

I haven't seen such complaints in emulator or on another device - and a Marmalade engineer (a very competent one btw) could not find the reason in Marmalade sources either. I have developed a gut feeling (see further in that forum) that this is related to handling the game remote motion events in low FPS situations - but it's just that, gut feeling.

Does the message ring a bell? What could it be?
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RokuMarkn
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Re: "Reader::Impl - circular buffer overflow"?

I talked to a developer more familiar with this area and he agrees with your gut feeling. He says it's a message indicating that the queue of events is not being consumed fast enough and that some are being dropped, and this is almost certainly because of motion events.

--Mark
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EnTerr
Roku Guru

Re: "Reader::Impl - circular buffer overflow"?

Thank you -
anything that i could (or should) do?

I.e. is there something to avoid event loss (e.g. param to expand queue)?
Do i care for the motion events lost (or do they get consolidated into a single summary one)?
It seems i lose button presses in such situations too.
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EnTerr
Roku Guru

Re: "Reader::Impl - circular buffer overflow"?

Alternatively, whose court is this ball in - Roku Inc or Marmalade Tech Ltd?
Who maintains the source?
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