If you get this starttup Message …
WARNING: Your system has a limit for maximum amount of locked memory!
This might cause Ardour to run out of memory before your system runs
out of memory. You can view the memory limit with 'ulimit -l', and it
is normally controlled by /etc/security/limits.conf
… or ardour says System to slow when click the play button.
The followed Configuration fix this Problem.
Create Subdir /etc/security/limits.d/ and save ardour2.conf File.
Add your group Name e.g. audio to the limit configuration.
# /etc/security/limits.d/ardour2.conf ##################################################### # @see Manpages limits.conf pam_limits # @short add new group @audio # NOTE pam.d/xdm:pam_limits.so must add ##################################################### @audio soft memlock 64 @audio hard memlock 96Set Module pam_limits.so to /etc/pam.d/xdm* Session Configuration
#%PAM-1.0 auth include common-auth account include common-account password include common-password session required pam_loginuid.so session include common-session session required pam_resmgr.so ##################################################### # @since 2008/11/23 # @see /etc/security/limits.d/ardour2.conf session required pam_limits.so debugrelogin and check the Debugging output
*> grep pam /var/log/messages ... pam_limits(xdm:session): reading settings from '/etc/security/limits.conf' ... pam_limits(xdm:session): reading settings from '/etc/security/limits.d/ardour2.conf' ... pam_limits(xdm:session): checking if undefined is in group audio ... pam_limits(xdm:session): process_limit: processing soft memlock 64 for GROUP ... pam_limits(xdm:session): checking if undefined is in group audio ... pam_limits(xdm:session): process_limit: processing hard memlock 96 for GROUPyou can check with ulimit -l if new configuration exists