[ardour-users] limits.conf WARNING

[Dragan Noveski]

Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> Quoting Michael Gerdau <mgd at technosis.de>:
>
>   
>>>> 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.
>>>>         
>>> You have 500K being allocated here, you'll need several MB at least.
>>>       
>> You sure about the 500k ?
>>
>> According to the documentation the value of memlock is in KB which would
>> make the above value almost 500MB.
>>
>> Anyway, I have set this value to 4000000 (which IMO is almost 4GB) and
>> I also get this warning (my system has 2GB of RAM).
>>
>> So the question is whether the PAM documentation is wrong and memlock
>> is not given in KB ?
>> Or is Ardour raising a false alarm ?
>>     
>
> Ardour will give this warning for any amount of maximum locked memory. It is
> a /warning/, not an error. It points the user to a potential problem which
> they should look at if they run into issues.
>
> "This might cause Ardour to run out of memory before your system runs out of
> memory... "
>
> The warning means you MIGHT run out of memory BEFORE your whole system runs
> really out of memory.
>
>   Sampo
>   
all right sampo, thank for clarifying the things.
i really had not come into any real problem with this issue, but i just 
was wandering bout the warning and wanted to know more precisely.

cheers,
doc