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

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Wed May 24 2006 - 21:56:53 EEST

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 19:08 +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> Jack O'Quin wrote:
> >
> > The required components are now available, and are being provided
> > by a few leading-edge distributions. Had you installed Ubuntu Dapper
> > Drake (which is not yet officially released), you would not have seen
> > any problem. They chose to include the PAM patches and authorize
> > all users to start realtime threads be default. That is a reasonable
> > choice for them (given their goals), but would not be appropriate for
> > most other distributions.
> >
>
> OpenSUSE 10.1, which has been officially released a couple of weeks ago,
> also is PAM ready. However, it's not OOTB. You'll have to add the
> relevant entries to /etc/security/limits.conf, like for example these
> ones where realtime capabilities are given only to users who belong to
> the "audio" group:
>
> @audio - rtprio 90
> @audio - nice -10
> @audio - memlock 4000000

Ubuntu does not have these lines OOTB, you also have to add them.

No distro with a "secure by default" policy could enable this out of the
box as it allows non-root users to lock up the machine.

Lee
Received on Thu May 25 00:15:03 2006

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