I installed Ardour 8.12 under LMDE (Linux) and at first start it said that there’s a limitation of memory
which could be solved changing the entries in /etc/security/limits.conf
I remember years ago I had to change things having to do with the group audio, but I found an article that proposed to add my user to the group pipewire.
Things change over the years, pipewire (which is installed in my system) seems to be THE audioserver in linux now, so I ask , what are the correct entries in limits.conf nowadays ?
You have to check what your distro uses as group name for this.
I got trapped by this (and a lacking understanding on how system groups work).
If a group audio exists, add yourself to it. some JACK docs talk about a group “realtime”. to use, for the same settings. And now pipwewire Wiki recommends a group “pipewire”.
It doesn’t really matter what the name is, as long as it is the group name referenced in limits.conf or a config snippet like /etc/security/limits.d/99-audio.conf, and your user is member of that same group
I answered under the assumption that LMDE stands for Linux Mint Debian Edition. The instructions on JACK’s FAQ are aligned with Debian distributions per my experience.
Following the information here I don’t think it changed. The name of the group is usually audio or sometimes realtime and it doesn’t really matter if it’s any other name, like pipewire.
If you need more help, you can check an app I made for that: Millisecond
Otherwise there’s also a python script on which it’s based: rtcqs
