[Vm-dev] setting priority limits on non-redhat linuxen

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Timothy,

    can you send me some text to add to the README?  I'm happy to make the
README as catholic as possible.


On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 9:06 AM, gettimothy <gettimothy at zoho.com> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> For those folks getting the pthread_setschedparam the example Eliot gives
> at http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3006/README.3006 does not
> apply to Slackware linux and I suspect other distros too.
>
> I did some digging this morning and figured out how to set this up on my
> system.
>
> This site https://www.hackthissite.org/articles/read/932 gives an
> overview, but it is a bit outdated.
>
> On Slackware 14.1 the output of 'man limits'  shows a few more entries
>
>
>
>   · A: max address space (KB)
>
> · C: max core file size (KB)
>
> · D: max data size (KB)
>
> · F: maximum filesize (KB)
>
> · K: file creation mask, set by umask(2).
>
> · I: max nice value (0..39 which translates to 20..-19)
>
> · L: max number of logins for this user
>
> · M: max locked-in-memory address space (KB)
>
> · N: max number of open files
>
> *· O: max real time priority*
>
> · P: process priority, set by setpriority(2).
>
> · R: max resident set size (KB)
>
> · S: max stack size (KB)
>
> · T: max CPU time (MIN)
>
> · U: max number of processes
>
>
>
>
>
> I created the /etc/limits  file and added an entry
>
>
>
> tty O100
>
>
> logout out and back in and I was able to run the squeak.cog.v3 build just
> fine.
> Prior to that limit fix, I was getting the dreaded  pthread_setschedparam
>  error and could only run the vm as root.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> tty
>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot
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