[PlanetCCRMA] jack_capture with jack 1.9.4 complains about nice value of "-10", wants "-20"

Kjetil S. Matheussen k.s.matheussen at notam02.no
Wed Jun 23 01:12:05 PDT 2010



On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>>
>> However, for some reason, fedora only allows normal processes
>> to set nice value to -10! That doesn't make very much sense
>> if you are allowed to set processes to run with a realtime
>> priority. So that's the reason for the warning. The solution
>> to get rid of the warning is to fix the /etc/security/limits.conf
>> file.
>
> Or to query what is the maximum negative SCHED_OTHER priority you are
> allowed to use and use that (I know that is possible with realtime
> SCHED_FIFO, you can query what are the max and mix values allowed,
> hopefully that would also be possible with SCHED_OTHER).
>

Of course! Thanks, I forgot about those.



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