On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Paul Davis wrote: > presumably some distros believe that their version of limits.conf > should accomadate this kind of misconception. i don't think that > limits.conf should be specifying a nice value, at least not in > connection with audio/music applications that inherently need realtime > scheduling. limits.conf doesn't _specify_ a nice value. Instead, it limits the range that the user can set (e.g. 'nice -n -10 emacs'). Most default installs won't let a normal user set a nice value below 0. If you change limits.conf, they are capable of setting lower nice values... but by default still starts with nice==0. Peace, Gabriel _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
