A while back (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/cgroups-and-rtwatch) I was celebrating that arrival of secure realtime scheduling for the desktop. As it appears this was a bit premature then, since (mis-)using cgroups for this turned out to be more problematic and messy than I anticipated.

As a followup I’d now like to point you to this announcement I posted to LAD yesterday (http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/2009/06/0191.html), introducing RealtimeKit (http://git.0pointer.de/?p=rtkit.git) which should fix the problem for good. It has now entered Rawhide becoming part of the default install (by means of being a dependency of PulseAudio), and I assume the other distros are going to adopt it pretty soon, too.

Read the full announcement. (http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/2009/06/0191.html)