Srinivas G. wrote: > > Yes, subject to certain restrictions, which are detailed in the > > sched_setscheduler(2) manpage. > > > > In particular, a non-privileged process cannot set the real-time > > priority higher than its RLIMIT_RTPRIO setting. You can change this > > with an "rtprio" entry in /etc/security/limits.conf (settings are > > applied on login, so changes won't affect existing login sessions). > > > > Privilege is determined by the CAP_SYS_NICE capability. > > Thanks Glynn. > > I have tried to set the RLIMIT_RTPRIO to 100 through > /etc/security/limits.conf. It was not defined previously, so I have > defined in the following way. > > domain type item value > #@srinivasg soft rtprio 100 First, as Ben says, you must uncomment the line. Second, you may also need to set the hard limit. You can use "ulimit -a" (or -aH) to check the actual limits. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html