Re: [linux-audio-user] Realtime not working on Debian testing... why?

From: Glenn Greenfield <mzilikazi@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Nov 15 2006 - 01:20:39 EET

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Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 15:56 -0700, Glenn Greenfield wrote:
>> Yes - a kernel configured for realtime preemtion.
>>
>> $ zcat /proc/config.gz |grep PREEMPT_RT
>> CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y
>
> Actually no. This is a common misconception.
>
> The point of realtime preemption is to improve realtime performance.
> The point of PAM and RT limits and the realtime LSM is to allow non-root
> users to run realtime applications.
>
> The two have nothing to do with each other.
>
> Lee
>
>
Hmm interesting - thanks for the clarification.

- -glenn
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