Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

From	hw <hw@adminart.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?
Date	2024-01-15 21:40 +0100
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On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 20:21 +0100, tomas@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?

Thread

How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-15 19:50 +0100
  Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-15 20:30 +0100
    Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-15 21:40 +0100
      Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2024-01-15 22:10 +0100
        Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-01-16 11:30 +0100
        Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2024-01-16 13:10 +0100
      Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-16 07:00 +0100
        Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 11:30 +0100
          Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-16 13:10 +0100
            Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 13:50 +0100
              Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-16 14:10 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 14:20 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 14:40 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-16 14:50 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-17 11:30 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2024-01-17 13:30 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-17 14:50 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-17 15:20 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-17 13:30 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-17 15:10 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2024-01-17 15:20 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-18 06:10 +0100
  Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-15 21:00 +0100
    Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-15 21:10 +0100
      Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 10:50 +0100
        Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2024-01-16 11:30 +0100
          Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 12:00 +0100
            Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2024-01-16 12:50 +0100
            Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-01-16 13:20 +0100
              Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 14:00 +0100
    Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-01-15 22:30 +0100
      Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 10:50 +0100
        Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-01-16 17:20 +0100
          Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-17 14:20 +0100

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