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How can I increase the priority of VLC to some realtime level? The realtime setting inside of VLC does not seem to have any effect. I figure it nowerdays (on a modern Linux system, not a from scratch system) involves rtkit.
I have already tried using vlc-wrapper
and setting this to +s
.
Plus I figure that most of the time my system is "sluggish", this involes heavy memory usage. Is there any way to priorize memory for VLC?
Any pointers?
Can you expand on heavy memory usage? I have a hard time believing that memory access would is the weakest link slowing you system down. Unless you run out of memory and are using swap. – Hennes – 2012-06-08T17:12:26.080
I have had some issue with VLC lagging out on an older computer. Increasing buffersize solved it for me – Bruno9779 – 2012-06-08T17:35:06.583
It's only happening when e.g. a web browser eats a lot of memory. So yes, unless I'm multitasking it is fine. No issues when just watching TV. And yes, the computer may need to swap, I only have 1 GB, and today web browsers are darn memory hungry. If I weren't multitasking I would not need to increase the priority. But I want VLC to get priority over all other stuff (and no, I don't want to put "nice" in front of every other command). – Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse – 2012-06-08T19:48:06.590