Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] failed to enable realtime scheduling

[Firas Abbas]

>Eric Blossom <address@hidden> wrote:
>  On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:59:13AM -0800, Firas A. wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In my PC, Intel Core2 Due (as well as my laptop), I cannot enable real time
> > scheduling. Both has gnuradio 3.1.1.
> > Both has Ubuntu 7.10. I remember (before 6 months), that my laptop was able
> > to enable the real time when it was running gnuradio 3.0.3 on Ubuntu 7.04.  
> > 
> > Any help please?.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Firas
>
> >Hi Firas,
>
> >Real-time scheduling requires that you be running as root (not >really recommended) or holding the CAP_SYS_NICE >capability.   See man 7
> >capabilities.   I believe you can also permit it by editing
> >/etc/security/limits.conf and specifying the item
>  rtprio.
> >
> >
> >Eric


Dear Eric,

Thank you for the information. The 'sudo' worked fine and I prefer it for the time been. 
If I assigned a real time priority to my group by editing the limits.conf, then I think (not tested) all my running programs will consume the CPU power.

Regards,

Firas