This has been a very timely discussion. I just got my son a new mobo, CPU and RAM, and he's been having a lot of trouble using jack, ardour and hydrogen until I followed the advice here and tuned his machine up. Thanks all! On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:21:58 -0500 Rick Wright <riwright@xxxxxx> wrote: > Thus, your command should be something like : > > /usr/bin/chrt -f -p 90 `pidof "IRQ 10"` Here's a novel twist on all of this: my sound and video cards don't seem to exist on my FC5 system, so I can't run this command! For example, my audio card is a Delta 1010. lspci -v shows it: 02:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. M-Audio Delta 1010 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at df80 [size=32] I/O ports at dfa0 [size=16] I/O ports at df60 [size=16] I/O ports at df00 [size=64] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 1 However, it's not in /proc/interrupts, and trying to use chrt as shown above fails: [root@xtc ~]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 67992 2883426 IO-APIC-edge [........N/ 0] pit 1: 8 0 IO-APIC-edge [........./ 0] i8042 8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge [........./ 0] rtc 9: 0 1 IO-APIC-level [........./ 0] acpi 12: 96 0 IO-APIC-edge [........./ 0] i8042 14: 6779 89 IO-APIC-edge [........./ 2] ide0 15: 28172 6252 IO-APIC-edge [........./ 2] ide1 17: 2 0 IO-APIC-level [........./ 0] ehci_hcd:usb1 18: 31 0 IO-APIC-level [........./ 0] uhci_hcd:usb2 19: 1276 0 IO-APIC-level [........./ 0] skge NMI: 0 0 LOC: 2951050 2954633 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 [root@xtc ~]# chrt -f -p 82 `pidof "IRQ 11"` sched_getscheduler: No such process failed to get pid 82's policy Hmmm, where's the process for IRQ 11?? [root@xtc ~]# ps -ef | grep IRQ root 33 27 0 15:28 ? 00:00:00 [IRQ 9] root 249 27 0 15:28 ? 00:00:00 [IRQ 8] root 268 27 0 15:28 ? 00:00:00 [IRQ 12] root 296 27 0 15:28 ? 00:00:00 [IRQ 14] root 299 27 0 15:28 ? 00:00:00 [IRQ 15] root 350 27 0 15:28 ? 00:00:00 [IRQ 1] root 838 27 0 15:28 ? 00:00:00 [IRQ 17] root 860 27 0 15:28 ? 00:00:00 [IRQ 18] root 897 27 0 15:28 ? 00:00:00 [IRQ 19] root 1133 27 0 15:28 ? 00:00:00 [IRQ 6] I'm really baffled here! Has anyone seen this? My video card (listed as having IRQ 18) is equally missing in action as well. Thanks for any clues sent this way. -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa