Re: [linux-audio-user] Just got 2.6.12-3-multimedia

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Tue Jul 19 2005 - 20:29:14 EEST

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 23:27 +1000, Mark Constable wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 July 2005 20:54, David Baron wrote:
> > > >> realtime rlimits. If your distro ships a 2.6.12 kernel, they need to
> > > >> update their PAM and bash packages to support this feature
> > > >> (check /etc/security/limits.conf and the output of ulimit for any
> > > >> mention of real time priority). Otherwise it's a bug.
>
> > > You want to execute "ulimit -a".
> > $ ulimit -a
> > core file size (blocks, -c) 0
> > data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> > file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
> > max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited
> > max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> > open files (-n) 1024
> > pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
> > stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
> > cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
> > max user processes (-u) unlimited
> > virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
>
> Great, thanks David, my output looks similar to this and certainly no
> mention of any realtime anything.
>
> Surely there is a URL to a doc somewhere explaining how to apply the
> realtime settings to a kernel and where the PAM patch is and how to
> set it up ?
>
> Has anyone got an example of how to configure /etc/security/limits.conf
> once the PAM patch is applied ?
>

http://steamballoon.com/pam/pam-limits2.patch

Please file a bug report with your distro and ask them to update their
PAM packages with this patch.

Lee
Received on Wed Jul 20 04:15:06 2005

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