Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Jonatan Liljedahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> how was it, is the realtime lsm patch included in the gobolinux kernel?
>>  it's the easiest way to gain realtime privileges, another alternative is
>>  set_rlimits which require no kernel patch, but it means you have to run
>>  all apps that might ask for realtime threads under set_rlimits which can
>>  be hard in a desktop environment..
> 
> I just checked the patch (which is 2 years old now -- does it still
> work?). As far as I can see, in order to apply it one would have to
> disable the default Linux capabilities (CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES),
> which is what we've been using so far -- it's not possible to have
> that capabilities configured as module anymore.

Is CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES the commoncap module? then this is
needed as a module for some reason, but if it can only be compiled-in or
not on newer kernels then we have a problem.

What is the preferred modern method of letting apps gain realtime
privileges? PAM perhaps? it as a limits.conf with a realtime variable..

> What about Ingo Molnar's preempt-rt patch? Isn't it an option for
> realtime audio? :
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/

What does it do?

-- 
/Jonatan         [ http://kymatica.com ]
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