On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 20:13 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Heya, > > Just a quick announcement: > > I just moved into Fedora Rawhide a little daemon called "RealtimeKit" > which will be enabled by default, and since it is now a dependency of > PulseAudio and things work how they work this will then not only be > available in Fedora 12 but also sooner or later in the other > distributions as well, installed by default. > > What's wrong with using RLIMIT_RPRIO?
You mean RLIMIT_RTPRIO? > The simple fact that we cannot > enable that by default since it basically empowers the user to freeze > the machine. Also, asking the user to edit /etc/security/limits.conf > is certainly not user-friendly. We want to enable RT scheduling for > media aplications out-of-the-box. As to configuration file editing, I think that in properly configured distributions /etc/security/limits.conf is set up out of the box (when a package that needs the privileges is installed) so that it is unnecessary to edit it manually. -- Fernando _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev