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Re: Is ulimit -l unlimited or limit memorylocked unlimited still needed?



shirish <shirishag75@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>    I went to the homepage of the dvd+rw-tools homepage.
>
> http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/tools/
>
>
> It gave me the following warning
>
> "IMPORTANT NOTE for 6.0 users! Newer Linux kernels have ridiculously
> low default memorylocked resource limit, which prevents privileged
> users from starting growisofs 6.0 with "unable to anonymously mmap
> 33554432: Resource temporarily unavailable" error message. Next
> version will naturally have workaround coded in, but meanwhile you
> have to issue following command at command prompt prior starting
> growisofs:

There is no need to do this in case you are using cdrecord.

Cdrecord includes a workaround for the named problem since January 2006.

Jörg

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