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Re: growisofs 6.1 fails to allocate shared memory beyond 16m



Andy Polyakov <appro@fy.chalmers.se> 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.

I was trying similar rules a while ago.... this does not work as you don't know
e.g. the size of libc.

Jörg

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