[LAU] limits.conf nice rtprio

[Paul Davis]

The fact that jackd has a --foobar option does not mean that a GUI front
end for jackd should expose it. The developers of JACK were/are
hackers/tinkerers and were egged on by other hackers/tinkerers to make as
many things possible as we could. This might be good for hackers/tinkerers
but it doesn't make it good for most users.

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Tim <termtech at rogers.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 08/17/2017 01:59 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>> When you've spent years dealing with people screwing up their JACK
>> installations/configurations by messing with parameters which were never
>> really meant to be exposed to users, you will definitely be "Advanced".
>>
>
> Ah, you want the "not nice" setting.
>
> Tim.
>
>
>> Maybe there are other ways to get there.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Will Godfrey <
>> willgodfrey at musically.me.uk <mailto:willgodfrey at musically.me.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:05:46 -0400
>>     Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
>>     <mailto:paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>> wrote:
>>
>>      > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Jaromír Mikeš
>>     <mira.mikes at gmail.com <mailto:mira.mikes at gmail.com>>
>>      > wrote:
>>      >
>>      > >
>>      > > ​
>>      > > What about my 2nd question?
>>      > > In qjackctrl Settings -> Advanced ... there is a "Priority"
>>     option ...
>>      > > It corresponds to -P cli option
>>      > > For what is it good and how it should be used?
>>      > >
>>      >
>>      > ​It's under "Advanced". That means ... if you don't know what it
>>     does,
>>      > don't use it, or adjust it. ​
>>
>>     I find that response surprising, unhelpful and quite wrong.
>>
>>     How can anyone discover whether they need to use a feature if nobody
>>     will tell
>>     them what it does?
>>     How does one become 'advanced'?
>>
>>     --
>>     Will J Godfrey
>>     http://www.musically.me.uk
>>     Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
>>     Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
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