[pulseaudio-discuss] Question about rtkit

[David Henningsson]

On 2014-12-01 07:53, Emmanuel PACAUD wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question not exactly related to pulseaudio, but rtkit.
>
> I'm trying to add rtkit support to a library I'm developing,
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Aravis.
>
> In order to test rtkit, I'm using the rtstutter test from pulesaudio,
> runnning on a fedora 21 setup.
>
> rtkit is installed and the daemon is running.
>
> But when I launch rtstutter, I get:
>
> CPU0: Created thread.
> CPU1: Created thread.
> Failed to acquire real-time scheduling: Permission denied
>
> Why rtstutter is not given real time scheduling ?
>

I'm not familiar with Fedora 21's config, but
  1) rtkit might write something in syslog
  2) there is a known problem with systemd cgroup handling + 
CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED enabled: 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747568

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