[mythtv-users] Realtime priority

[Johannes Koester]

> Hi,
> unfortunately that does not help either. I've tried it with the user-id
> (1002) and the user name, but that does not help. And yes, my
> mythfrontend-user is in the video group. Is there any log entry which says
> more than "It does not work..."?
>
> Thank you very much for your help!
> Johannes
>
>> On Thu Dec 03, 2009 at 02:48:44PM +0100, Johannes Koester wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>> I'm currently trying to set up realtime for mythfrontend.
>>> THis is my limits.conf:
>>> # Mythtv realtime priority
>>> *               -       rtprio     0
>>> *               -       nice       0
>>> @video          -      rtprio     50
>>> @video          -      nice       0
>>>
>> I found that specifying groups didn't work at all.  It worked fine when
>> I switched to specifying the mythtv user instead.
>>
>> HTH,
>>     Robin

Well, I've solved it:
it is essential, that in the pam config file for your login method the
pam_limits module is activated:
session  required   pam_limits.so

In my case that was the file /etc/pam.d/su.

Thank you anyway for your fast answers.

Regards
Johannes