Nobody & Rtkit

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raddison Registered Member Posts 515 Karma 0	Nobody & Rtkit Sat May 20, 2017 8:17 pm Probably just a dumb question. I've noticed two processes in KSysGuard: dnsmask (process ID: 1025) - nobody and rtkit-daemon (process ID: 1288) - rtkit. What are those, if I may? $:-\$ I'm not yet a seasoned GNU/Linux guy, I guess. Proud to be powered by Plasma
airdrik Registered Member Posts 1854 Karma 5 OS	Re: Nobody & Rtkit Tue May 23, 2017 7:23 pm A quick google search turns up http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html (suggesting dnsmasq is a networking assistant) and https://askubuntu.com/questions/48888/w ... -cpu#48956 (suggesting rtkit-daemon is a background process for managing real-time processes). Google often has the answers airdrik, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Dec.
raddison Registered Member Posts 515 Karma 0	Re: Nobody & Rtkit Tue May 23, 2017 8:11 pm @airdrik Thank you. Proud to be powered by Plasma
wolfi323 Registered Member Posts 1129 Karma 11 OS	Re: Nobody & Rtkit Wed May 24, 2017 6:10 pm AFAIK, rtkit is mostly used/needed by pulseaudio. I have neither of both installed here on openSUSE... (they are part of a default installation though)
raddison Registered Member Posts 515 Karma 0	Re: Nobody & Rtkit Wed May 24, 2017 8:04 pm @wolfi323 Thank you. Proud to be powered by Plasma