Ah, thank you. The fact that I was sometimes getting LoadProhibited was confusing me, I didn't think I'd need that much stack for that task and clearly need to research how to size a FreeRTOS stack allocation..

Thanks again.

I'm trying to take the station example from 4.4 of the ESP-IDF and make it non-blocking. I'd like to have the wifi try to connect on startup and if it does, great - but if not to continue running other tasks and keep trying to connect. The way I approcated this was to remove the xEventGroupWaitBits ...

I am running ESP-IDF 4.3.2 (in ~home/docs/code/esp/esp-idf) and downloaded the 4.4 ZIP file to put it alongside my esp-idf directory in ../esp-idf-release-v4.4 I have the prerequisites listed but when I run ./install.sh I get the below error - note that I am NOT running it from a virtual environment...

Couple of things Your problems seems suspiciously aligned to the 2MB flash limit you have configured in sdkconfig. You should be seeing warnings like this if you monitor the chip on startup: W (286) spi_flash: Detected size(4096k) larger than the size in the binary image header(2048k). Using the siz...