perf-audio deprioritized Pulsar to nice 10 in cool/extreme and nice 5 in standard, on the theory that the editor should yield to audio. That trade buys nothing. The entire audio chain runs SCHED_FIFO *above* it — scsynth 90, sclang 85, PipeWire 95, WirePlumber 95, Ardour 80 — and a realtime policy preempts every CFS nice level unconditionally. So Pulsar at -5 cannot take a single cycle from SuperDirt; it only wins against ordinary processes (browsers, indexers, builds), which is exactly what we want during a composing session. Now nice -5 in every mode, overridable with PULSAR_NICE=NN (0 = neutral, positive = the old behaviour). -5 rather than 0 because the renderer is a single JS thread and its work is bursty: it has to win the CPU on the tick after a keystroke, then yield. No root needed — @audio's `nice -19` grant in /etc/security/limits.conf is what makes the same renice work for pln. Validated: installed to /usr/local/sbin/perf-audio, re-applied via `bridge.py perf standard`, all Pulsar processes confirmed at nice -5 live.
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