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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM
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From: "Jack O'Quin" <joq@io.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:42:24 -0600
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> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 13:17 -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote:
>> But there may be other, better solutions to the deadlock problem.
>> Several years ago, Roger Larsson wrote a completely user-space
>> realtime monitor program that works perfectly well for revoking
>> realtime privileges when it detects CPU starvation.  I still use it
>> occasionally to help debug problems if the built-in JACK watchdog
>> timer doesn't catch them.

Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes:
> Do you have a link to Roger Larsson's RT watchdog?

No official, supported version.  With his permission, I posted a copy
on my home system a year ago for some audio users who had inquired
about it.  That copy is here...

  http://www.joq.us/joq/rt_monitor.tgz
-- 
  joq