[ardour-users] limits.conf WARNING

[Jason Russler]

You have 500K being allocated here, you'll need several MB at least.
I'm not sure how much is really required - I just set it to 128MB and
forgot about it...  It won't hurt anything if this is just a
workstation system.

On 1/29/07, Dragan Noveski <perodog at gmx.net> wrote:
> hi list,
> starting ardour2 i get the following warning:
>
> nowhiskey at murija2:~/software/ardour2$ ardour2 -v
> WARNING: Your system has a limit for maximum amount of locked memory!
> This might cause Ardour to run out of memory before your system runs out
> of memory. You can view the memory limit with 'ulimit -l', and it is
> normally controlled by /etc/security/limits.conf
> Ardour/GTK 2.0beta11.1
>    (built using 1343 and GCC version 4.0.4 20060507 (prerelease) (Debian
> 4.0.3-3))
> nowhiskey at murija2:~/software/ardour2$ ulimit -l
> 250000
> nowhiskey at murija2:~/software/ardour2$
>
>
>
> here the limits.conf looks like:
>
>
> ......
> #@audio         -       nice            -19
> #@audio         -       rtprio          99
> #@audio         -       memlock         500000
>
> # End of file
> @audio - rtprio 99
> @audio - memlock 250000
> @audio - nice -10
>
>
> if i change the memlock variable to 500000 and reboot, there still is
> the warning.
>
> how much should memlock be set, and is the value of memlock affecting
> sth else on the system, that means, can i just experiment with changing
> the value more up, or can i demage sth with it?
>
> i am here an agnula/debian testing.
>
> hope somebody knows some answers,
> cheers,
> doc
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