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Bhikkhu Subhuti
Asked: 2019-05-14 10:47:11 +0800 CST

ulimit unlimited cannot set

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I'm having a problem setting ulimits to unlimited. I am a member of the @audio group Here are the contents of my /etc/security/limits.conf

@audio - rtprio 95

@audio - memlock unlimited

I know audio group is working because I have realtime settings working.

Here is the output of the ulimits -l -r

$ ulimit -r -l
real-time priority              (-r) 95
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 65536

So the realtime is working but the max locked memory is not working. Not sure what got messed up. I don't want to reinstall to make this work Using ubuntu 19.04

I have jack installed too. Maybe this is messing things up. There are two files in the limits.d folder that I created.. but now deleted.

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1 Answers

  1. Hour wasted - but, here's what worked on Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon: include these 4 lines in limit.conf:

    @audio          hard    rtprio          95
@audio          soft    rtprio          95
@audio          hard    memlock     unlimited
@audio          soft    memlock     unlimited

    Hawkeye posted this info about another issue here: Original hint Thanks to him!

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