[PlanetCCRMA] FC8 / CCRMA : Audio Group???

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 17:51 +1000, Nicholas Manojlovic wrote:
> Is that number '4194304' needing to be changed if I only have a gig of
> ram?

No need to change that (it means that _all_ your memory can be locked -
it could be a problem if you use many apps with jack, the machine could
run out of memory if everything is locked). 

-- Fernando


> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
> <nando at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 17:30 -0700, Nexxus Six wrote:
>         > Hi All,
>         > If I run Jack (under QJackCtl) as root, it will run in real
>         time mode,
>         > but as a normal user, Jack complains about not being able to
>         run in a
>         > real time mode.
>         >
>         > How do you configure FC8 to let a normal user run Jack with
>         root-like
>         > priorities?
>         
>         
>         Check to see which version of jack-audio-connection-kit you
>         have installed.
>         The one from ccrma should be setting that automatically for
>         you. Check
>         /etc/security/limits.conf, it should contain:
>         
>         ----
>         ## Automatically appended by the Planet CCRMA
>         jack-audio-connection-kit
>         * - rtprio 99
>         * - memlock 4194304
>         * - nice -10
>         ----
>         
>         If this is missing just add it (you will have to logout and
>         login again
>         for the change to take effect).