Re: [proaudio] pam rlimits aware setup

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Le Thu, 18 May 2006 10:29:08 +0200,
Thomas Kuther <gimpel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> On Thu, 18 May 2006 01:53:54 +0200
> Frieder Bürzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Dominique Michel wrote:
> > > Le Wed, 17 May 2006 23:11:57 +0200,
> > > Frieder Bürzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> > >
> > >   
> > >> Dominique Michel wrote:
> > >>     
> > >>> Le Wed, 17 May 2006 15:21:56 -0500,
> > >>> "Colin Shapiro" <cmshapiro@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> > >>>
> > >>>   
> > >>>       
> > >>>> Do the default values in /etc/security/limits.conf not work when
> > >>>> you emerge the version of pam from the proaudio overlay?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> # REALTIME support for audio group users
> > >>>> @audio          -       rtprio          100
> > >>>> @audio          -       nice            -10
> > >>>> @audio          -       memlock         250000
> > >>>>     
> > >>>>         
> > >> yes for sure I use this version. I've added the rlimits aware pam
> > >> to the overlay
> > >>     
> > >>> It is the value I have been used from a few weeks with pam +
> > >>> rt-lsm. And it is the value I used for the test and what I use
> > >>> now. It just run out of the box after the install.
> > >>>
> > >>> Ciao,
> > >>> Dominique
> > >>>
> > >>>   
> > >>>       
> > >> In your description in the forums you wrote that pam would not
> > >> work properly on non rt-kernels. Does jackd get realtime priority
> > >> with non rt kernels?
> > >>     
> > >
> > > You have to  run jackd as root with a non realtime kernel to get
> > > realtime priority. But it will be rt in jack, not full premption as
> > > with a rt-kernel. The premption depend in all case on the kernel.
> > > With a non rt kernel, you will only get a higher priority when
> > > runing jack with rt priority.
> > >
> > > If you read not only my last post on the forum with the test, but
> > > the other ones, I talk about compiling a vanilla kernel and testing
> > > pam-Rlimit with it. I get wird system behaviour as the whole system
> > > freezing to death with a low cpu usage. With the same 2.6.16
> > > kernel, but rt22, all is working fine.
> > >
> > > Dominique
> > >
> > >   
> > up to now I was forced to use a non-rt kernel because using reiser4
> > as filesystem, but now I've added successfully reiser4 to rt-sources.
> > pam setup fails anyway
> > this is what jackd gives me
> > 
> > $ jackd -R -d alsa
> > 
> >  jackd 0.100.7
> > Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
> > jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
> > This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> > under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
> > 
> > JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
> > loading driver ..
> > Enhanced3DNow! detected
> > creating alsa driver ...
> > hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit control device hw:0
> > [snip]
> > cannot use real-time scheduling (FIFO at priority 20) [for thread 
> > -1228706896, from thread -1228706896] (1: Operation not permitted)
> > cannot use real-time scheduling (FIFO at priority 10) [for thread 
> > -1237099600, from thread -1237099600] (1: Operation not permitted)
> 
> Frieder, do you get any errors on login? like 
> ----8<---
> May 18 10:19:14 SiRiUS pam_limits[14241]: unknown limit item
> 'rt_priority'
> ---->8---
> (i just upgraded from an old version of patched pam which still used
> rt_priority instead of rtprio)

I get no error.

> The version from the overlay is doing fine here.
> 
> Further more, do you use pam login at all? You're sure you have shadow
> emerged with USE="pam"?
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
I have shadow-4.0.14-r1 with use: nls and pam.

Dominique



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