On Mon, 22.06.09 21:28, Emanuel Rumpf (xb...@web.de) wrote: > > 2009/6/19 Lennart Poettering <mz...@0pointer.de>: > > > 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. > > > Why not just create a small script to handle editing + reloading of > limits.conf : > > $ allow_realtime_for_group audio yes > Allowed RT scheduling for group audio > > $ allow_realtime_for_group audio no > Disallowed RT scheduling for group audio > > Things seem to work well with limits.conf set up. > No reason to change it AFAIS.
Dude. Seriously. As pointed out gazillions of times handing our RLIMIT_RTPRIO to everyone is an invitation to freeze the machine. While that might not be a problem on an audio workstation, it is a problem for the big distributions. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
