NAME

       libpipewire-module-rt - RT

DESCRIPTION

       The rt modules can give real-time priorities to processing threads.

       It uses the operating system's scheduler to enable realtime scheduling for certain threads
       to assist with low latency audio processing. This requires RLIMIT_RTPRIO to be set to a
       value that's equal to this module's rt.prio parameter or higher. Most distros will come
       with some package that configures this for certain groups or users. If this is not set up
       and DBus is available, then this module will fall back to using the Portal Realtime DBus
       API or RTKit.

MODULE NAME

       libpipewire-module-rt

MODULE OPTIONS

       • nice.level: The nice value set for the application thread. It improves performance of
         the communication with the pipewire daemon.

       • rt.prio: The realtime priority of the data thread. Higher values are higher priority.

       • rt.time.soft, rt.time.hard: The amount of CPU time an RT thread can consume without
         doing any blocking calls before the kernel kills the thread. This is a safety measure to
         avoid lockups of the complete system when some thread consumes 100%.

       • rlimits.enabled: enable the use of rtlimits, default true.

       • rtportal.enabled: enable the use of realtime portal, default true

       • rtkit.enabled: enable the use of rtkit, default true

       • uclamp.min: the minimum utilisation value the scheduler should consider

       • uclamp.max: the maximum utilisation value the scheduler should consider

       The nice level is by default set to an invalid value so that clients don't automatically
       have the nice level raised.

       The PipeWire server processes are explicitly configured with a valid nice level.

EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION

       context.modules = [
       {   name = libpipewire-module-rt
           args = {
               #nice.level   = 20
               #rt.prio      = 88
               #rt.time.soft = -1
               #rt.time.hard = -1
               #rlimits.enabled = true
               #rtportal.enabled = true
               #rtkit.enabled = true
               #uclamp.min = 0
               #uclamp.max = 1024
           }
           flags = [ ifexists nofail ]
       }
       ]