From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266550AbTGEXRk (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 19:17:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266548AbTGEXRk (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 19:17:40 -0400 Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.43]:43707 "EHLO mail-in-03.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266550AbTGEXPX (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 19:15:23 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: Diego Calleja =?iso-8859-15?q?Garc=EDa?= Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm1 Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 01:31:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030703023714.55d13934.akpm@osdl.org> <200307052309.12680.phillips@arcor.de> <20030706001136.3a423b29.diegocg@teleline.es> In-Reply-To: <20030706001136.3a423b29.diegocg@teleline.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307060131.02051.phillips@arcor.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 06 July 2003 00:11, Diego Calleja García wrote: > El Sat, 5 Jul 2003 23:09:12 +0200 Daniel Phillips > > The "better" mechanism for sound scheduling is SCHED_RR, which requires > > root privilege for some reason that isn't clear to me. Or maybe there > > once was a good reason, back in the days of the dinosaurs. > > I don't think mp3 playing needs nothing special. It does. It requires realtime scheduling. That is special. Without realtime scheduling, the mp3 player will sometimes miss its deadline for filling the next chunk of buffer. > (xmms supports realtime, but you need root) Needing root in order to play your mp3 without skipping is stupid and unnecessary. Regards, Daniel