[ardour-users] Scons Build on FC6 CCRMA continued

[Matthew Polashek]

> Do you have a memory lock limit defined in /etc/security/ 
> limits.conf for
> your user or a group your user belongs to?

Not sure.  Let me see if I can figure that out.

On May 23, 2007, at 2:25 AM, Sampo Savolainen wrote:

> Quoting matt at tinysongs.com:
>
>> [matthew at localhost ~]$ ardour2
>> 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
>
> Let's see if this is the first time my notorious warning message  
> actually
> helped to identify the issue. :)
>
> Do you have a memory lock limit defined in /etc/security/ 
> limits.conf for
> your user or a group your user belongs to?
>
> Does increasing the limit to 512000 (or adding a limit) help the  
> situation?
> (note that you need to log out and login after you change the file to
> activate the changes)
>
> The limit row usually looks like this:
>
> @audio     -   memlock 5120000
>
> Where "audio" is the name of the group the limit is imposed on.
>
>
>  Sampo