Re: [TCLUG:8111] Realtime sound

[schewe@tcfreenet.org]

> Even when the system is under fairly light loads, the audio can skip quite
> heavily (it gets really annoying after a while..)  Which brings me to my
> question -- does anyone know how I can give ESD realtime priority like XMMS? 
> XMMS has that functionality fairly well built-in (just run it as root, or make
> it suid root), but I can't seem to find any info on getting realtime priority
> for ESD.  Does anyone have any pointers?

Get it to run as root and set it's priority higher.  You can probably
set the priority with setpriority or nice.

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Jon Schewe 
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