On 10/29/07, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/29/07, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 10/29/07, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Update: I just discovered that running jackd -R -P 70 -dalsa -P -p256 > -n2 > > > -r44100 as ROOT doesn't even set priority 70. jackd then runs as a root > > > process with priority 20, according to both chrt and top. > > > Apparently my system is not able to run anything higher than 20 > priority; > > > does this mean my kernel is misconfigured, or might it be something > else? > > > > jackd is a multithreaded process, you can't just look at the priority > > of the main thread, you have to check all of them. It should have > > some SCHED_FIFO threads and some SCHED_NORMAL threads. > > > Interesting, I'll have to keep reading until I find out how to do that. > But is it normal, then, that chrt -p 70 `pidof "jackd"` would set rtprio 70 > but jackd -R -P 70 etc. wouldn't? > Which is to say, if chrt can set the main thread priority, why not the -P > flag? > That's normal. The main thread is not supposed to be SCHED_FIFO. Lee _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
