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Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 20:23, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 04:16, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> >> Another option would be an Alt-Sysrq-something that lowered all RT
>> >> processes to normal levels.
>> >
>> >
>> > If someone wants to code this up I and the other people on jackit-devel
>> > would gladly test it.
>> 
>> Here you go.  Some limited testing suggests that it actually works.
>> Pressing Alt-Sysrq-N (as in Nice) changes all RT tasks to SCHED_NORMAL
>> policy.
>> 
>
> I sent this patch to the jackit-devel list, and everyone seems to think
> this would be a useful feature; had this been around a few years ago it
> certainly would have aided JACK's development.

So why didn't anyone write it earlier?

> Debugging an RT process becomes as easy as a regular one (read:
> reboot free).  I see no reason not to merge it once it has been
> widely tested.

Let me know how the testing works out.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se