rainbow and pam

[Mikus Grinbergs]

> Proper fix: make the kernel have a per-task inheritable upper
> limit on the real-time priority. Perhaps the existing limit
> (used for niceness) can even do the job. It's this thing:

I almost always have multiple sessions running on my XO.  If one of 
those sessions provides me with background music, I don't want it to 
"stutter" as I do other things with my XO.  For that reason I 'nice' 
the task which is feeding the audio hardware (to have priority over 
all other tasks).

So far (on recent Joyrides) this is working the way I want it -- my 
audio task has a priority of -12 (that's minus !).  I get concerned 
when there is talk of "improving" priority handling in the XO.  If 
something were done that caused my background music to "stutter", I 
would not hesitate to "patch" *my* system to regain uninterrupted music.


mikus