Comment # 6 on bug 1206745 from Scott Bradnick

(In reply to Scott Bradnick from comment #5)
> (In reply to James Moe from comment #4)
> > I simply have a text window that runs:
> > $ journalctl --follow --lines=60 --output=short-iso
> > 
> > Basically the syslog output.
> > 
> > The useless entries are not harmful as such. They do take up visual space
> > when scrolling through the journal. There are bursts of entries from 2 up to
> > 50 at a time, though the large groups are rather rare.
> > 
> > If rtkit is literally doing nothing with nothing for no one, why record it
> > over and over?
> 
> Interesting, if I don't run that as root - I don't see anything like that.
> Sure, why would I if it's not being monitored/logged by a PID I 'own'. 
> 
> I ran: "sudo journalctl --this-boot | grep -i rtkit" and none of the entries
> say anything like "0 processes of 0 users", all of mine have non-zero #s
> associated with them and maybe 6 per info dump. I'm wondering if this is a
> case of 'a server does X ; a desktop does Y'. Is your use-case a desktop or
> headless server?
> 
> Again, not arguing against this being annoying - but it seems like you only
> see it if you're looking for it. I plan to see if there's _any_ config
> option for it but I want to be sure I understand the symptoms.

These might also help or are at least worth a quick glance:

https://github.com/heftig/rtkit/issues/22
https://github.com/heftig/rtkit/pull/26

Doesn't seem like much happens w/ rtkit upstream (anymore?).