On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 18:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 07:27 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Hi :) > > > > > > could you please add a dependency to audio/MIDI app packages for your > > > distros, that will set up real-time usage? > > > > > > The following issue is wide spread: > > > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > > > Be sure you are able to run audio apps with the right > > > privileges, eg. > > > > add your user to the "audio" group in /etc/groups and check > > > > out /etc/security/limits.conf for these lines > > > > @audio - rtprio 100 > > > > @audio - nice -10 > > > > for the n-hundreth time: nice has no role to play in improving the > > performance of pro-audio/music creation software. > > You'll read such 'help' thousands of times when you're subscribed to > regular distro users mailing lists or on non-audio Linux forums. > > I always post http://www.jackaudio.org/linux_rt_config when I read such > recommendations. > > Since people usually are using Jack by a package, when thy use real-time > audio apps IMO it's ok to include it to a Jack package, anyway, IMO > there should be a dependency setting without nice and with memlock. > > I just want to inform about this issue. Coders and package builder might > not be informed about what happens on non-audio users lists and forums. > > FWIW very often there are recommendations to _avoid_ a kernel-rt, since > a distros 'default', 'desktop', 'generic' kernel should have the same > capabilities and the kernel-rt should have disadvantages. The resume > then could be, that people wonder, that they can't use Linux for complex > audio sessions.
Alas, the stock Debian kernel these days does *not* use "Low Latency Desktop" :( I don't know if derivatives have followed suit or not... -dr _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
