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

[Lee Revell]

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