Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:35:17 -0400 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: mmap error? |
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On Monday 02 April 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote: >On Apr 02, 2007, at 13:54:28, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Ahh, thank you very much. But I have 7.0, supposedly fixed, >> sigh... That did fix it, the dvd is burning as I type, again thanks. >> >> ???? Can I put this into rc.local so its global? I guess I will >> just for effects. Or is there an option in a make xconfig to reset >> this to a usable sized limit?, because I can see cups also having >> problems since I have its render cache set for 127 megs, which >> should also trigger this. > >Well, that's not a limit on how much memory you can map, it's a limit >on how many pages you can lock into memory (as in, cannot be swapped >out or written back to disk and reused). For low-latency >applications (IE: cd burning) you need to have all memory mlocked so >that you don't get a low-latency wakup and then promptly lose all >latency guarantees by swapping madly, but something like CUPS doesn't >have a problem because it doesn't use mlock() or mlockall(). > Ah, that clarifies that then, thanks Kyle.
>Cheers, >Kyle Moffett
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