Re: growisofs 6.1 fails to allocate shared memory beyond 16m
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 22:13, Andy Polyakov wrote:
> > >SV> I'm running Linux 2.615 on a Slamd64 distro.
> > >SV> I've successfully compiled dvd+rw-tools 6.1.
> > >SV> If I launch growisofs as normal user no problem to allocate
> > whatever >SV> size of the fifo buffer.
> > >SV> :-( unable to anonymously mmap 33554432: Resource temporarily
> > >SV> unavailable
> >
> >> Are you absolutely certain you are usig 6.1? I reported this error for
> >> 6.0
> >
> > and
> >
> >> do not see it any more in 6.1.
> >
> > Yes, surely I'm running 6.1 version.
>
> Note that growisofs attempts to increase the locked limit upon start-up
> and it even reserves for extra 4MB for code, data and stacks. Is it
> possible that extra 4MB is not sufficient for your system? Try to
> experiment with different values for ulimit -l/limit memorylocked, most
> notably `expr \( 32 + N \) \* 1024` with N > 4. A.
In root mode It works with N=9 and beyond i.e ulimit -l 41984
Ste
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