From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 21 12:30:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCDCF106564A for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:30:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 825638FC1A for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:30:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.193]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FD0A5C21 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:35:35 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4D109D1B.90600@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:27:07 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101119 Thunderbird/3.0.10 ThunderBrowse/3.3.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4D0D8AEA.2070309@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4D0DFF44.5090409@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FBSD Realtime X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:30:44 -0000 On 12/20/10 11:49, Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Da Rock > wrote: > >> In light of the significant spam of late, it occurs to me that my former >> subject line may have been a little sparse... :) >> >> On 12/19/10 14:32, Da Rock wrote: >> >>> I can't seem to get my head on straight with the realtime scheduling in >>> FBSD despite all my googling. Can someone give me a pointer to the latest >>> info? As far as I can tell FBSD has it, but only root(?) can use it? >>> >>> I'm interested in who can use it, and how to allow a user to obtain the >>> realtime access. >>> > There's an ongoing discussion/debate between two very knowledgeable > and talented developers (plus a supporting cast) regarding the > real-time support in FreeBSD; it's happening on freebsd-arch@: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2010-December/010835.html > > I suggest giving it a read if you are planning on deploying some > real-time process (or are interested in reading about FreeBSD > internals from some very knowledgeable people). > Good show! I'll check that out. I'm actually the latter... :)