[PD-dev] memory locking policy
Tom Schouten
doelie at zzz.kotnet.org
Wed Oct 20 10:32:30 CEST 2004
>
> > If MCL_FUTURE has been specified and the number of locked
> > pages exceeds the upper limit of allowed locked pages, then the
> > system call which caused the new mapping will fail with ENOMEM.
> > If these new pages have been mapped by the the growing stack,
> > then the kernel will deny stack expansion and send a SIGSEGV.
>
> to me this seems to be the reason for the soundfiler problems, but it
> can reduce the stability of a working patch, so i'd suggest to find ways
> to solve this problem ...
>
what sets the upper limit actually?
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