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

Shayne O'Connor forums at machinehasnoagenda.com
Tue Apr 26 22:01:39 EDT 2005


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
>
>If this works for you, I am collecting success reports.  Please email
>rlimits-success at steamballoon.com .
>
>If you have any problems with it, LAU is probably the best place to ask
>for help.  Unfortunately I don't have large amounts of time to spend
>helping people with this, so any help requests emailed to me directly
>may be deleted without a reply.  Sorry.
>
>  
>

just wondering if i'm downloading the right kernel package to test this
patch against ... i'm getting this package:


http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.12-rc2.tar.bz2

shayne



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