Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2003 03:51:39 -0600 | From | Mark J Roberts <> | Subject | Arbitrary mlock() half-memory limit. |
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/* we may lock at most half of physical memory... */ /* (this check is pretty bogus, but doesn't hurt) */ if (locked > num_physpages/2) goto out;
I've been running fluidsynth (a synthesizer program) with 700-900MB instrument sample files on a box with 1GB of memory. It tries to lock the samples into memory and fails.
This isn't a problem for me, since I don't have swap configured and the sample data is anonymous-backed, but it's a case in which the arbitrary limit is clearly pernicious. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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