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

David dplist at free.fr
Tue Nov 14 21:54:42 EST 2006


On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:11:14 -0500
Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:

> 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.

But there would be no point in using the realtime LSM or the RT rlimit
on a non RT kernel. True ?

Thanks.

-- 
David




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