FBSD Realtime

[Da Rock]

On 12/20/10 11:49, Brandon Gooch wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Da Rock
> <freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au>  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... :)