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

Fons Adriaensen fons at kokkinizita.net
Mon Jun 22 16:34:25 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:14:00PM +0100, Krzysztof Foltman wrote:

> You're not ignoring it, you're practically waging the war against it,

Ever seen a real war ?

> The existence of rtkit doesn't make it harder for you to assign RT
> privileges to every process on the machine. However, it makes it
> possible to prevent rogue processes from obtaining/abusing the RT
> scheduling while letting user-approved processes to still use it.

Which rogue processes ? What was the last time you've seen a
RT-bomb ? Why did you run it ?

And anyay this thing protects against nothing at all.

Ciao,

-- 
FA

Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia è troppo stretta e lunga.




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