On Tuesday 19 July 2005 20:54, David Baron wrote: > > >> realtime rlimits. ?If your distro ships a 2.6.12 kernel, they need to > > >> update their PAM and bash packages to support this feature > > >> (check /etc/security/limits.conf and the output of ulimit for any > > >> mention of real time priority). ?Otherwise it's a bug. > > You want to execute "ulimit -a". > $ ulimit -a > core file size (blocks, -c) 0 > data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited > file size (blocks, -f) unlimited > max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited > max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited > open files (-n) 1024 > pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 > stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 > cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited > max user processes (-u) unlimited > virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited Great, thanks David, my output looks similar to this and certainly no mention of any realtime anything. Surely there is a URL to a doc somewhere explaining how to apply the realtime settings to a kernel and where the PAM patch is and how to set it up ? Has anyone got an example of how to configure /etc/security/limits.conf once the PAM patch is applied ? --markc