Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:02:23 -0400 | From | "Lee Revell" <> | Subject | Re: [ck] RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels |
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On 3/13/07, Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > > Sounds like Wengophone is broken. It should be using RT threads for > > time critical work, as JACK and Ardour2 are doing. > > If the app has root privileges to set RT policy, then it could also set > deeply negative nice values as well. > > Doesn't reallly help the regular user with no privileges.
Well this was supposed to be solved by RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO which went into mainline about a year ago but distros have been very slow to pick up the new PAM, glibc and bash packages. We don't have a clear picture yet of what defaults the distros will ship.
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