From: D.B. M. <db...@ho...> - 2008-11-09 02:27:35
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Greets, > Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 08:40:32 -0800 > From: pstieber@ > To: jazzplusplus-devel@ > Subject: Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] tex2rtf broken > > DM = D.B. Moore > DM> Just a question for both Pete & yourself > DM> (seeing as you're both on fedora)... > > I think Kevin is using Mandriva. > > DM> could you look at your /etc/security/limits.conf > DM> file and let me know if it contains any entries > DM> for your user account? > > My Fedora box... > $ uname -a > Linux maggie.toyon.corp 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 17 > 14:20:33 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > has the following entries > > ## Automatically appended by jack-audio-connection-kit > @jackuser - rtprio 20 > @jackuser - memlock 4194304 > > ## Automatically appended by jack-audio-connection-kit > @pulse-rt - rtprio 20 > @pulse-rt - nice -20 > > So anything running in the jackuser group limits the maximum real-time > priority to 20 and has a maximum locked-in-memory address space of > 4194304 KB. Anything running as group pulse-rt has the same maximum > real-time priority limit and a maximum nice priority allowed to raise to > limit of -20. The comments indicate this was automatically added by the > jack package. > > > The Mandriva I'm running for Kevin... > > $ uname -a > Linux localhost 2.6.22.19-desktop-2mdv #1 SMP Mon May 5 20:55:05 EDT > 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ GNU/Linux > > has the following > > * - rtprio 0 > * - nice 0 > @audio - rtprio 50 > @audio - nice -10 > > So the maximum nice priority allowed to raise to limit is 0 and the > maximum real-time priority limit is 0 for all users and the group audio > has different limits. > > So no entries for my user account. > > DM> (and what they read if existent) I've discovered there's a > DM> way to tune user & user run task priorities from this > DM> location, and am interested with what fedora policy here > DM> is -- on a Deb install there are no user entries. > > Same for Mandriva and Fedora. If you use the bash shell, I believe you > can set some of this using ulimit in your .bash_profile. > <<snip>> > > HTH, > Pete > Thanks for this lot....once I discovered that some vendors were setting limits here, others not, and others in bash_profile, I realized there could be a bit of a chasm between distros that may affect (particularly softsynth) system performance....so this appears to be the case. This is good to know. Regards, Donald B _________________________________________________________________ Take a summer road trip with Windows Live Hotmail. Multiple prizes and the ultimate dream beach house! http://www.ninemsn.com.au/hotmailroadtrip |