Replying to myself below. * Peter P. <[email protected]> [2018-07-11 12:31]: > Hi, > > * Chris McCormick <[email protected]> [2018-07-11 10:41]: > > Hi, > > > > On 11/07/18 04:13, Peter P. wrote: > > > Furthermore, does anyone know if the 'tc' user can be added to an > > > audiogroup, whose permissions could be elevated through > > > /etc/security/limits.conf (currently not present in piCore). > > > > I think you could do this by settings the rtprio limit directly in: > > /opt/bootscript.sh > > > > It seems that sysctl and ulimit can't set this but maybe this will help: > > > > https://serverfault.com/questions/889635/seting-rtprio-limit-in-system-without-pam > Thanks for that link! In this case I could run the patch as root anyway > I think. > > Interestingly, starting pd from /opt/bootlocal.sh as root at startup > will make Pd use all of the CPU and hence produce stuttering audio. When > I change the corresponding line in /opt/bootlocal.sh to start as user tc > sudo -u tc /home/tc/myPdStartupScript.sh > Pd runs normally. > > > > This might be off-topic, but has anyone managed to create a persisntent > > > home directory inside /dev/mmcblk0p2 (the ext2/3 partition created by > > > piCore itself, which I did maximize already)? > > > > You can use the command `filetool.sh -b` to backup a snapshot of the homedir > > to the SD card and it will be returned to that state on reboot. > This is what I read from the docs and what I am currently using. Albeit, > I am having a 300MB sound file in my home dir and it being part of the > filetool.sh backup immensely slows down startup as the OS has to > uncompress the audiofile. Managed to shrink the existing filesystem in /dev/mmcblk0p2 using resize2fs as well as the partition using fdisk. Created yet another partition /dev/mmcblk0p3 with an ext4 filesystem which now gets mounted as home with the boot option home=/dev/mmcblk0p3
There might be more elegant ways of doing this, but it works fine for me. thanks Chris and list again, P _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
