Re: [linux-audio-user] Squeezing any more performance out of this old laptop...

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Tue Mar 20 2007 - 21:58:29 EET

On 3/20/07, Marc-Olivier Barre <mobarre@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On 3/20/07, Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com> wrote:
> > Also with limited RAM and any released JACK version it's important to
> > reduce the stack rlimit to something like 256KB (it defaults to 8MB)
> > via limits.conf. Otherwise you lock down a lot of memory that will
> > never be used.
>
> This brings a question to my mind. I have a Gig of RAM on my laptop.
> Should there be any problems locking up to 750 Mb, or is it just a
> matter of tastes ?

It's a waste of memory because no sane app will put nearly 8MB on the
stack, especially a realtime application.

Lee
Received on Wed Mar 21 00:15:02 2007

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