[PlanetCCRMA] Realtime & network usage

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 15:18 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote:
> Hello, list :-)
>  
> According to your knowledge and experience, is it safe to run programs
> (Jack, ...) with realtime privileges,
> - while connected to the Internet,
> - while connected to a trusted LAN ?
>  
> Would it be OK to run the edge kernel (realtime preemption) in these
> situations ?
>  
> I vaguely remember seeing warnings against this, but could not find
> related information on Linux reference sites.

It should not make any difference whether you are connected or not to
the network. At least it should be as safe as when not running a
realtime enabled kernel :-)

-- Fernando