[PD] pd with -jack & -rt

[guenter geiger]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> guenter geiger hat gesagt: // guenter geiger wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Miller Puckette wrote:
> > > well, now it's pd and jack ... in the future, there's no telling how
> > > crowded the space of "real-time" hungry processes will get.  So maybe
> > > it's worth finding a general way to determine which level Pd should
> > > live at.  Perhaps it should be just below the one jack chooses (and does
> > > anyone know that one?)
> >
> > seems to be 10 for the server and 9 for the client.
> > (from jackd/jackd.c:static int realtime_priority = 10;)
>
> BTW: If I'm right, Ardour, which started all the Jack craze, doesn't
> seem to elevate its own priority anymore at all, it just lets the Jack
> daemon put and pull data when Jack sees fit. But I may not be right.
> At least, /usr/bin/ardour here isn't setuid anything special.

Pd is a different case, because adding proper jack support would require
to change several things in the engine - the way its done now, high
priority is a must.

Guenter