On Tuesday 02 January 2007 11:03, Chris Mohler wrote: >From http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/tools/: > >IMPORTANT NOTE for 6.0 users! Newer Linux kernels have ridiculously >low default memorylocked resource limit, which prevents privileged >users from starting growisofs 6.0 with "unable to anonymously mmap >33554432: Resource temporarily unavailable" error message. Next >version will naturally have workaround coded in, but meanwhile you >have to issue following command at command prompt prior starting >growisofs: > > * if you run C-like shell, issue 'limit memorylocked unlimited'; > * if you run Bourne-like shell, issue 'ulimit -l unlimited'; > Ok, so save the project, stop k3b, issue the above command in bash and restart k3b from that bash session? Ok, but: [root@coyote ~]# limit memorylocked unlimited -bash: limit: command not found So I'm puzzled to say the least :( But this worked I think: [root@coyote ~]# ulimit -l unlimited [root@coyote ~]# Restart k3b, reload project. Burn speed is AUTO and its trying to do a 16.4x burn on a 4x disk! The buffer fifo is mostly empty. But its done about 600 megs in 3:30 so as the disk is wasted in any event, I'll let it finish & verify before I force a lower burn speed. Interesting experiment in other words. I've had k3b eat my lunch and take the machine down when a burn abort was attempted. Darn, I just remembered I had started 'smartctl -t long' on the src drive too, so that certainly isn't helping the read speed I'd imagine. It has 15 reported errors according to smartctl -a, so I'd imagine we should bin that drive, (smartd was sending me emails about its problems) but I was testing anyway. Dumb, duh, alzhiemers, etc :( Humm, later, its burnt and verifying, and I can read, dimly as its ghosted, that the burn speed was 3.8x, much more like it. But the highest I ever saw the buffer fifo was 5% after the burn actually started. Amazing, k3b is playing the charge. Repeat for the rest of it. Question: Is this 'ulimit -l unlimited' system-wide or only for this particular invocation/session of bash? > >HTH, >Chris Thanks a lot Chris. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
