On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 12:15 +0000, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > hw <h...@adminart.net> wrote: > > 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. > > Well no it doesn't. You've changed the order of the words and that > changes the meaning. > > > If it had changed the priority it should say that, but it doesn't. > > There's a rather unwieldy noun phrase > "thread 2534 of process 2507 (/usr/bin/gnome-shell) owned by '1000'" > which identifies a particular thread. Let's call that THREAD. > > Then what the log says is: > > rtkit-daemon[132284]: Successfully made THREAD RT at priority 20. > rtkit-daemon[132284]: Successfully made THREAD high priority at nice > level 0. > rtkit-daemon[132284]: Successfully made THREAD RT at priority 20. > rtkit-daemon[132284]: Successfully made THREAD high priority at nice > level 0. > > So the log is telling you something about changes to the priority and > real-time nature of that particular THREAD. I've no idea what they > actually mean.
Yes, it finally occured to me that it's supposed to mean 'made RT' when I looked at the journal again. RT probably means real time, and there seems to be a distinction between real time and nice. However, this is not a real time system, so real time is basically meaningless. Still, how do I prevent rtkit-daemon and firefox from giving it(self) higher priority?
