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Does your system use PAM limits.conf? Most of the online documentation<br>suggests a value of 95 for the rtprio setting for the audio group. Having <br>this thread get 98 is odd, it implies you have some other setting or are using<br>some other method. Either way, the process would have had to request this<br>value itself - nobody could really have done it for him.<br><br>The values of 65 probably come from the Jack API however that comes from<br>linking with the process, it is not something jackd does.<br><br>Your ps output does not include the associated uid however if LinuxSampler<br>were running as root it could quite easily give itself rtprio 98.<br><br>regards,<br><br>"we have to make sure the old choice [Windows] doesn't disappear”.<br>Jim Wong, president of IT products, Acer<br><br><br><br><br>> From: arnold@arnoldarts.de<br>> To: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<br>> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:22:59 +0200<br>> Subject: Re: [LAU] LinuxSampler higher priority than the audio card or jack?!<br>> <br>> On Monday 17 August 2009 10:04:50 Ken Restivo wrote:<br>> > LinuxSampler grabs priority 98??!<br>> > Most JACK apps start up at 65, as you can see, below the priority of<br>> > jackd.<br>> > IRQ-219 is my audio interface.<br>> > How was LinuxSampler able to grab such a ridiculously high priority? Who<br>> > told it to do that?<br>> <br>> Probably the same way as with jackd (two priorities of 80 and 70 in your <br>> dump): One thread is the watchdog to kill the others if they misbehave. Of <br>> course this thread should have its priority as high as possible...<br>> <br>> Have fun,<br>> <br>> Arnold<br><br /><hr />With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and <a href='http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/products/photo-gallery-edit.aspx' target='_new'>share your photos.</a></body>
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