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

[Lee Revell]

On 3/20/07, Marc-Olivier Barre <mobarre at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/20/07, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-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