On 20 September 2016 at 03:00, Thomas Daede wrote: > For Fedora Workstation, the current limit on mlock()ed memory per user > is 64kiB, which less than what some applications need. > > In particular, Bitcoin Core uses mlock() to prevent private keys from > being swapped to disk. The total size of the wallet keys can exceed 300kB. > > Audio is another use case that uses mlock() to prevent skips. Fedora > already has special cases for some apps such as jack, which it gives 4GB.
Note that there is a bug in Gnome Terminal [1] that overrides the ulimit settings (e.g. for jack), which may be unknown to some. Orcan [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1364332 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
