Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?
On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 11:27 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> I don't know anything about rtkit, but I may be able to parse English :-)
>
> Am 16.01.2024 um 10:42 schrieb hw:
> ...
> > The messages in the journal are actually weird:
> >
> >
> > rtkit-daemon[132284]: Successfully made thread 145442 of process 145185 (/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox) owned by '1000' RT at priority 10.
> >
> > rtkit-daemon[132284]: Successfully made thread 2534 of process 2507 (/usr/bin/gnome-shell) owned by '1000' RT at priority 20.
> > rtkit-daemon[132284]: Successfully made thread 2534 of process 2507 (/usr/bin/gnome-shell) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level 0.
> > rtkit-daemon[132284]: Successfully made thread 2534 of process 2507 (/usr/bin/gnome-shell) owned by '1000' RT at priority 20.
> > rtkit-daemon[132284]: Successfully made thread 2534 of process 2507 (/usr/bin/gnome-shell) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level 0.
> >
> >
> > It says 'made owned by'. Does user 1000 not own the process to begin
> > with? Which user owned it before? Or what is that supposed to mean?
>
> What it tries to say is probably "made (thread ... owned by 1000) high
> priority".
It says 'made thread ... (at nice level 0) owned by 1000'. This is
inconclusive at best: The thread is obviously _at_ some nice level or
_at_ some priority and was made owned by 1000.
If it had changed the priority it should say that, but it doesn't.
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