Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?
On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 14:17 +0100, hw wrote:
> On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 08:03 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 01:43:23PM +0100, hw wrote:
> > > There's only a bunch of links in that directory, apparently all
> > > pointing to files that don't exist. Don't you have that?
> >
> > unicorn:~$ ls -l /run/user/1000/systemd/units
> > total 0
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 32 Jan 4 10:33 invocation:at-spi-dbus-bus.service -> bfec6466520a4586b8c9205c235ccc92
> > [...]
> > I guess that's normal, then. It seems they're using the symlink target
> > as the actual *data*, not a link to another file that contains the data.
> > Why? I have no idea. I seem to recall one of the BSDs doing something
> > like this, but I never fully understood the rationale. Something about
> > atomic operations, maybe?
> >
>
> I consider it as alarming rather than normal when I can't access data
> on my own computer.
>
> And I do want to know what this unit file for firefox contains and
> does and how it is being brought about.
>
Hm, ok, this seems to go to
'/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-firefox-.scope.d/99-cgroupify.conf'.
What the hell is cgroupify? It seems to be yet another undocumented
thing coming from the freedesktop crap.
I still don't know what's with these non-existing files, though.
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