[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 8.10 and Realtime Priority

James Crow james at ultratans.com
Wed Feb 18 21:58:00 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:09 -0800, Allen Edwards wrote:
>         I still do not have mythfrontend running with realtime
>         priority. Steps I
>         took:
>         
>         Edited /etc/security/limits.conf adding this:
>         *               -       rtprio     0
>         *               -       nice       0
>         @audio          -       rtprio     50
>         @audio          -       nice       0
>         
>         
> 
> I just did this myself and as you have not just called my arrogant or
> rude I will be happy to share what worked for me with my mythbuntu
> 8.04 setup.
> 
> 
> I didn't have any luck with the audio group, didn't exist, I put my
> user name in.  To be specific, my user and group name is dad.  I
> edited the file as below.
> 
> 
> *               -       rtprio     0
> *               -       nice       0
> @dad          -       rtprio     50
> @dad          -       nice       0
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Now I find this message in mythfontend log:
> 
> 
> 2009-02-18 12:06:23.467 Using realtime priority.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> 
> Allen
> 

For me the audio group does exist and my user (james) is a member of
that group. Audio is not the user's primary group. Maybe I should try
setting the @audio to @james or whatever my primary group is.

I will also check the logs tonight.

Thanks,
James





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