VLC, realtime priority and rtkit

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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?

Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse

Posted 2012-06-08T16:54:47.430

Reputation: 326

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

Answers

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Have you tried changing nice level with the nice command?

nice -0 vlc

if it works you can put it in a bash-script and create an alias to vlc, so it will always start with nice 0

Bruno9779

Posted 2012-06-08T16:54:47.430

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You can't go above 0 with this, unless you are root. And running all this as root is not recommended. Which is exactly what rtkit is meant to solve. – Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse – 2012-06-08T19:45:23.533

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