[LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 20:13 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> Just a quick announcement:
> 
> I just moved into Fedora Rawhide a little daemon called "RealtimeKit"
> which will be enabled by default, and since it is now a dependency of
> PulseAudio and things work how they work this will then not only be
> available in Fedora 12 but also sooner or later in the other
> distributions as well, installed by default.
>
> What's wrong with using RLIMIT_RPRIO? 

You mean RLIMIT_RTPRIO?

> The simple fact that we cannot
> enable that by default since it basically empowers the user to freeze
> the machine. Also, asking the user to edit /etc/security/limits.conf
> is certainly not user-friendly. We want to enable RT scheduling for
> media aplications out-of-the-box.

As to configuration file editing, I think that in properly configured
distributions /etc/security/limits.conf is set up out of the box (when a
package that needs the privileges is installed) so that it is
unnecessary to edit it manually. 

-- Fernando