On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield<gabriel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. I believe Paul meant "should not specify a lower than normal nice limit". You were discussing limits.conf, after all. He knows that does not change the default nice value of 0. -- joq _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
