[linux-audio-user] Realtime not working on Debian testing... why?

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 15:56 -0700, Glenn Greenfield wrote:
> Yes - a kernel configured for realtime preemtion.
> 
> $ zcat /proc/config.gz |grep PREEMPT_RT
> CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y 

Actually no.  This is a common misconception.

The point of realtime preemption is to improve realtime performance.
The point of PAM and RT limits and the realtime LSM is to allow non-root
users to run realtime applications.

The two have nothing to do with each other.

Lee