[linux-audio-dev] Please test the RT rlimits patch for audio

[Luke Yelavich]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:06:16AM EST, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 08:13 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 06:32:32AM EST, Jody McIntyre wrote:
> > > The RT rlimits patch (nice-and-rt-prio-rlimits.patch) has been proposed
> > > as a solution to allow audio users to run their applications with
> > > realtime priorities.  While more complicated to configure, it's a much
> > > cleaner patch than realtime-lsm and it's likely to get merged soon _if_
> > > enough audio users test it and confirm that it works.
> > > 
> > > To encourage this, I have created a wiki page containing installation
> > > instructions, links to prebuilt PAM packages, etc:
> > > http://www.steamballoon.com/wiki/Rlimits
> > 
> > Some distros, like Slackware do not use pam. How could this patch still 
> > be used?
> 
> Well, how do you implement rlimits without PAM?

If this question was directed at me, I don't know. I simply package 
software for others to use on Slackware. Since Slackware doesn't have 
Pam, I don't see how this patch would be useful, which will mean having 
to use realtime-lsm.
-- 
Luke Yelavich
http://www.audioslack.com
luke at audioslack.com
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