[linux-audio-user] Low latency with 2.6.16.16 vanilla

[Mark Knecht]

On 5/23/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 17:01 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >    I have not tried the pam enabled realtime methods as there doesn't
> > seem to be any value spending the time to do it just yet.
>
> On Gentoo it should be as simple as, emerge some-recent-glibc version,
> emerge PAM-0.80-or-later, add a few lines to /etc/security/limits.conf.
>
> Of course I have never tried Gentoo, for all i know this will recompile
> every app or blow up your computer or something.
>
> Lee
>
>

We went through this before. I'm just being a grouse. PAM-0.99.3.0 is
masked in portage right now meaning it hasn't been completely tested,
etc. It's easy enough to unmask, but why should I bother? I feel no
need to be an early adopter in this area. When the Gentoo devs unmask
pam then I'll consider it, but why now? Will it give me any fewer
xruns than I'm getting with realtime-lsm? It cannot. I'm at zero right
now.

* sys-libs/pam
     Available versions:  0.78-r3 ~0.78-r5 ~0.78-r6[2]  [M]0.99.3.0
     Installed:           0.78-r3
     Homepage:            http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
     Description:         Pluggable Authentication Modules

I expect that when someone produces a kernel that won't work with
realtime-lsm then I'll have to jump.

Cheers,
Mark