[LAU] CPU Priorities at limits.conf

[Edgar Aichinger]

Am Mittwoch, 5. März 2008 schrieb Christian Delahousse:
> Could someone explain what the values mean? I mean, I imagine Memlock
> means max memory allocate, but to what? I have 1.2 gigs of ram and I
> can spare more thatn 512megs... Also, I<ve heard of people using
> different nice values... What does this do?
> 
> Thanks

A short description of those can be found at:

http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto#PAM

Edgar

> 
> On 04/03/2008, Edgar Aichinger <edogawa at aon.at> wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 4. März 2008 schrieb Arda Eden:
> >
> > > I order to use my audio applications (related to latency) more efficiently,
> >  > I gave some priorities to the applications which are in the "audio" group by
> >  > adding the lines below, to the file "/etc/security/limits.conf"
> >  >
> >  > @audio - rtprio 95
> >  > @audio - memlock 512000
> >  > @audio - nice -19
> >  >
> >  > By doing this, to which application did I give the priority ?
> >
> >
> > To a *user* belonging to this group. Just add your user to group audio and
> >  re-login to your desktop.
> >
> >
> >  >
> >  > Alsa, Jack ... ?
> >  >
> >  > How is that defined in GNU/Linux ?
> >  >
> >  > I mean,
> >  > Did I give this priority to all applications using the sound device or to
> >  > the applications that are included in the "audio" group ?
> >  >
> >  > Who, what or which are in the "audio" group ?
> >  >
> >  > Thanks.
> >  >
> >
> >
> >
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