On 2/2/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:51 -0500, Dana Olson wrote: > > The only things I can think of probably have already been considered. > > > > Everywhere I read seems to indicate that while realtime-lsm is still > > supported in Debian, Ubuntu, and others, it is deprecated in favor of > > the rtlimits in the 2.6.12 and newer kernels. I currently use the > > set_rlimits 1.20 app to access this. So either I would recommend this > > be included in Debian or PAM with a proper setup. I don't know > > anything about PAM, but I've read that it's the ideal way, and > > set_rlimits is mainly for distros that won't use PAM. I don't even > > know if Debian uses PAM.. > > Yes, Debian based systems all use PAM. > > Hmm, have you been able to establish whether Dapper supports the new RT > priority rlimit OOTB, and if not, where the problem is (glibc, PAM, > bash, etc)? It definitely seems like this should just work. > > IMHO this is the biggest obstacle to getting low latency audio to work > by default. Even with a non-rt kernel this should produce good results > (5-10ms for 2.6.14+ according to my tests). > > Lee I haven't installed Dapper yet, but I will soon on a second hard drive. But, judging by the comments I've read elsewhere, PAM is not yet set up in Dapper for rt stuff. I thought that it required a patch and a special config? I don't know anything really about it at this point, but someone emailed me and said they knew how and would email me back with the howto, or add it to my site. I agree with you, but it is pretty easy to get the realtime-lsm module installed, or to use the set_rlimits app. But PAM is the best option from all I've read, and would make that part of the puzzle much easier. Dana
