[linux-audio-user] realtime preemption question

[Jan Depner]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:08 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi Mick,
>    If you enabled it you can copy /proc/config.gz somewhere, gunzip it
> and grep for PREEMPT
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> On 2/1/06, laulist at mondoseo.com <laulist at mondoseo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Now this is pretty basic, but I have Googled around a bit and can't find
> > the answer:
> >
> > What do I look for (in /proc/sys/kernel I assume) to tell me whether a
> > 2.6 kernel has realtime preemption compiled in?
> >

    If you're running some version of Red Hat you can look in /boot for
config-whatever files and just grep -i for preempt in the one that
corresponds to the kernel you're running.  I don't know if this is the
same on other distros.

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