On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Jeremy <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/05/2010 02:09 PM, Pablo Fernandez wrote: >> >> I wonder about the nice value. It is there but commented out. >> jackaudio.org <http://jackaudio.org> don't even mention it. What is it for? >> >> >> Cheers! Pablo >> > Hello Pablo, > > It's to 'renice' (prioritise) processes. But since prioritising > processes with rtprio works better the nice setting is not necessary > anymore afaik. not pick on you jeremy, just wanting to make it more likely that people find this via google: .... no! renice has NEVER been the right way to make audio work. the fact that it happens, in a few cases, to have some beneficial impact has apparently misled some people who don't understand how this all works. nice and renice have absolutely nothing to do with making sure that audio plays correctly. the capability that they represent should not be used for this purpose, and people who spread around patches to limits.conf that include it are simply confusing people with an error. --p _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
