On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 02:48:46 +0200 Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 05.10.08 20:29, Jon Masters (jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Can I suggest that we consider adding new desktop users on a fresh > > install to pulse-rt by default? Or, put another way, does anyone > > think this is a particularly bad idea to be doing? > > It's a security issue. > > If you add a user to pulse-rt he basically got the power to block the > CPU indefinitely and thus freeze the machine. > > Unfortunately on Linux we don't have anything in place that would > allow "safe" usage of realtime features. There have been steps in the > right direction (like real-time group scheduling, RLIMIT_RTTIME), but > that is still a royal PITA to use or trivial to circumvent. > yeah it's better to not need realtime, and just have a good enough scheduler instead ;-) -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
