20 Jul
2009
20 Jul
'09
11:29 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Gabriel M.
Beddingfield<gabriel(a)teuton.org> wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Paul Davis wrote:
I believe Paul meant "should not specify a lower than normal nice
limit". You were discussing limits.conf, after all. He knows that
does not change the default nice value of 0.
--
joq
presumably some distros believe that their
version of limits.conf
should accomadate this kind of misconception. i don't think that
limits.conf should be specifying a nice value, at least not in
connection with audio/music applications that inherently need realtime
scheduling.
limits.conf doesn't _specify_ a nice value. Instead, it limits the
range that the user can set (e.g. 'nice -n -10 emacs').
Most default installs won't let a normal user set a nice value below 0.
If you change limits.conf, they are capable of setting lower nice
values... but by default still starts with nice==0.