Esync Limit

Freddo

I'm trying to use Lutris, but it's telling me my esync is not set correctly.
I've discoverd in Solus it's defaulted to 4096 where it needs to be 525288

I've followed the guide on the lurtis site, but I'm a new linux user and not experienced with the terminal.
The guide states:

Modifying ulimits.conf
On Linux distributions not using Systemd or distributions using pam-limits.conf (Arch Linux, Fedora, Solus,... ), you (with root privileges or sudo) need to edit /etc/security/limits.conf.
Change username to your actual username. Once the file is edited, reboot for the changes to take effect, and verify by running ulimit -Hn to see the new limit (524288).

 username hard nofile 524288

I've attached a pic of my limits.conf, where I believe I made the above changes, but it's not had the desire effect, esync value is still at 4096 after reboot

Staudey

I'm assuming you've added the line starting with <sam>
Several things wrong here:

If you start a line with "#" it's ignored, so that's the first thing you have to change
you don't have to (or aren't even allowed to) put all those terms in angle brackets

Just follow the examples at the bottom of your screenshot and format everything like that, while leaving out the "#" at the beginning, so the line actually gets used.

edit: You might also have to do the thing mentioned in this post: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/1455-please-help-me-with-terminal-lutris-limits/8
(though I'm not 100% sure anymore)

Freddo

Staudey

Thanks for the input, still learning my way round.
What command should I be using to edit the file in the first place?
The command I was using, which I found in a solus page somewhere was. sudo gedit - should it be sudo nano then?
Sudo gedit seems to give an error in the terminal

viyoriya

Freddo you can use any editor check the editor you installed ..if you have nano you can try sudo nano
but bit tricky ...edit the conf file then ctrl+xand type y to save for shortcut for nano search in google.If you prefer to install gedit then install from software center and try sudo gedit...technically # symbol is for comments it wont be executed as Staudey said.

Freddo

viyoriya

Thanks, I have figured it out, the page Staudey linked mentioned another step to do, despite it saying you didn't need to do it..I got the esync at the value it should be