RE: [linrad] Out of memory errors

Title: Out of memory errors

Hello Henry,

The call to mlockall() fails to lock the RAM area used by Linrad.

Maybe your RAM is reserved for a large RAM disk or there is

some other program running. Are you perhaps running in a console

under X?

The calls to mlockall() were added recently because I have had

reports indicating that some Linrad users run Linrad off the hard disk

(swapped by Linux) The behaviour is a bit unpredictable...........

Linrad does not need much computing resources. I uploaded a screen

dump today after verifying Linrad-00.15 on a Pentium 133 MHz. The

image shows seven hours of (simulated) VLF waterfall at a FFT bin

width of about 0.005 Hz. The soundcard was sampling at 22050 kHz

which is much higher than typically needed. Yet the CPU load was below

50% and about 5 megabytes of ram was used.

So, Henry, I am pretty sure your computer hass the memory needed,

but I do not know why Linrad is denied to lock it. Unless someone else

gives the explanation, please give more details.

Leif

Hi,
I'm getting "out of memory" errors with Linrad 1-.15 regardless of the parameter settings. Any suggestions?
Henry
w2hes

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