On 10/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fernando Lopez-Lezcano</b> <<a href="mailto:nando@ccrma.stanford.edu">nando@ccrma.stanford.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 15:59 +0300, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:<br>> Hi doc, thanks for the guess. sudo chrt does work, though. I'm<br>> supposed to not need it with the rt-patched kernel, which allows<br>> non-root users to set high priorities.
<br><br>Not exactly right. The rt-patched kernel (Ingo's patches) only optimizes<br>the max latency paths in the kernel. Other software is what allows<br>non-root users to use SCHED_FIFO scheduling. There are several options,
<br>the current one is /etc/security/limits.conf through PAM, there are<br>others.</blockquote><div><br>I see; that makes more sense now.<br>Any idea why Linux wouldn't honor /etc/security/limits.conf?<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> > /etc/security/limits.conf has:<br>> > @audio - nice -10<br>> > @audio - rtprio 99<br>> > @audio - memlock 4000000 (someone on the
<br>> jack list<br>> > suggested that my previous value "unlimited" was not<br>> recognized, so I<br>> > stuck this in but no change)<br>> ><br>> > and user "chuckk" is in group "audio".
<br></blockquote></div><br>Still true.<br><br>-Chuckk<br><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.badmuthahubbard.com">http://www.badmuthahubbard.com</a>