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      "text": "Working on the portable thread scheduling priority interface. Windows is a bit nicer by default, one can increase the scheduling priority without admin and there is a AvSetMmThreadCharacteristics() / AvSetMmThreadPriority() hack for \"Pro Audio\" scheduling needs.",
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      "text": "Linux by default doesn't allow any increase in scheduling priority. Users need to manually setup special user|group with elevated rights. Also system calls that try elevated scheduling don't clamp, instead they fail -EPREM if out of bounds. So all around a pain in the ass.",
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      "text": "I'm a little lazy right now and don't feel like trying SteamOS big picture mode to see what the default ulimits are. Curious what they allow.",
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      "text": "Linux priority workarounds\n(a.) Use getrlimit() to get {soft,hard} limits\n(b.) Use setrlimit() to set 'soft=hard' limit\n(c.) Then set priority or nice based on new soft limit",
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      "author": "NOTimothyLottes",
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      "text": "I don't do one-time global priority maximums, just in case someone sudo's higher priority hard limit dynamically it should pickup the new limit.",
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      "text": "Also while on setrlimit, I also bump up the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to it's maximum just in case before the mlockall().",
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