On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 20:21 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 07:38:27PM +0100, hw wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm seeing in the journal (and in htop) that rtkit-daemon gives (has > > given) a ton of firefox processes increased priority. > > > > Of course, having tons of web browser processes running at increased > > priority is like one of the last things I would want. > > It's the ad industry. It won't settle for less than real time access > to your eyeballs ;-P > > Sarcasm [1] aside, the idea was possibly to enhance your videoconf > experience. > > As far as I understand, rtkit gets told by apps over DBus [2] > "hey, I'm important. Gimme some real-time prio". > > No idea where its config is, but there is an admin front end > to it called rtkitctl.
It doesn't have any configuration other through command line arguments. > That said, it is Poetteringware, so it should come with a decent > man page. It doesn't have a man page. > > How do I prevent this from happening? > > Tell us when you find out. I always enjoy stories from the deep > end of the pool :-) > > > And why is there no control whatsoever about which processes can get > > higher priority? This is not an acceptable way to do such things. > > There should, yes. > > > Is there a better way then disabling/removing rtkit-daemon? And how > > could I remove/disable it? > > Which package does it come with? Well, I don't remove it because it can be useful. I only want to prevent it from doing stuff I don't want it to do. That ability goes more and more down the drain :( And it turned out that it's apparently not rtkit-daemon but firefox itself that makes it assume a higher priority. > Cheers > > [1] It always feels queasy when sarcasm and reality are so > close together. > > [2] Phew. No DBus around here. Another bullet dodged :-D Aren't there going to be lots of problems with things not working when you don't have dbus?
