Re: [linux-audio-dev] Please test the RT rlimits patch for audio

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Please test the RT rlimits patch for audio

Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 9:17 pm

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:06:16AM EST, Lee Revell wrote:

quoted text> On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 08:13 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:

> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 06:32:32AM EST, Jody McIntyre wrote:

> > > The RT rlimits patch (nice-and-rt-prio-rlimits.patch) has been propos=

ed

quoted text> > > as a solution to allow audio users to run their applications with

> > > realtime priorities.  While more complicated to configure, it's a much

> > > cleaner patch than realtime-lsm and it's likely to get merged soon _i=

f_

quoted text> > > enough audio users test it and confirm that it works.

> > >=20

> > > To encourage this, I have created a wiki page containing installation

> > > instructions, links to prebuilt PAM packages, etc:

> > > http://www.steamballoon.com/wiki/Rlimits

> >=20

> > Some distros, like Slackware do not use pam. How could this patch still=

=20

quoted text> > be used?

>=20

> Well, how do you implement rlimits without PAM?
If this question was directed at me, I don't know. I simply package=20

software for others to use on Slackware. Since Slackware doesn't have=20

Pam, I don't see how this patch would be useful, which will mean having=20

to use realtime-lsm.

--=20

Luke Yelavich

http://www.audioslack.com

luke@audioslack.com