How can I run an ordinary process with real-time scheduling?

galiyosha · 2006-06-30 23:19:00

Say, I'm sick of occasional skips produced by my media player and want to run it with real-time scheduling. But there's no internal option to do so -- like -R in jackd. How do I achieve that?

Is there any helper program or command I can use? "Run Command" in KDE offers the "Run with realtime scheduling" option, but it insists on running the process as root, which I don't want to do...

Thanks in advance for help.

galiyosha · 2006-07-01 00:19:16

Um, already found the schedtool in AUR. Apparently just a different set of keywords was enough. : But anyway, I'm curious if there are any other ways to achieve smooth playback even under heavy CPU or disk loads.

Gullible Jones · 2006-07-01 03:42:12

This is something I'd like to know a bit more about too, come to think of it... I wonder if GStreamer 0.10's skipping problems are due to it refusing to run with realtime priority.

lucke · 2006-07-01 09:28:23

Using staircase CPU scheduler could help ;-)

tomk · 2006-07-01 14:53:09

Which, as lucke forgot to say, is included in the ck and beyond kernels.

Gullible Jones · 2006-07-02 01:41:22

It doesn't help on my machine. In fact, it causes noticable slowdowns and generally lower system responsiveness.

test1000 · 2006-07-04 14:03:41

haha, audio playing problems in the 21th century.

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