RAM consumption of supplicant IoT?

[khali singh]

Hi Krishna

This is very interesting work. I wonder what EAP method was used for
authentication? Did you make any efforts to reduce the RAM consumption
or was this simply the standard supplicant package (can you also write
the version information)?. An interesting thing to know is the idle
memory consumption (when the supplicant is simply running as a daemon)
and the peak memory consumption (which I guess is during
authentication and re-keying)

Thanks
Khali

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Krishna Chaitanya
<chaitanya.mgit at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 2:56 PM, khali singh <khali3620 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone has some numbers on the RAM consumption of a
>> supplicant. I know it would be depend on the actual EAP method used,
>> but I was wondering what kind of numbers are we talking about. Is it a
>> few kB or way more?
>>
>> I was thinking to build a stripped down version of wpa_supplicant with
>> only the bare essentials and one EAP method for usage in IoT type
>> devices.
> I did this recently, for a basic open connection, using mac80211_hwsim
> i got the total heap consumption to be about 130KB. (using massif from
> valgrind).
>
>   n        time(i)         total(B)   useful-heap(B) extra-heap(B)    stacks(B)
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 50      7,734,291          130,008           90,039        39,969            0
>
> 51      7,814,496           59,928           47,991        11,937            0
>
> 52      7,898,388           12,640           12,047           593            0