Rtkit Daemon flooding journalctl logs


Recently I observed, Rtkit daemon has been flooding the Journalctl logs

I frequently found logs such as below in the journalctl logs

Jun 13 22:51:50 madhur-b550mds3h rtkit-daemon[1922]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 13 22:51:50 madhur-b550mds3h rtkit-daemon[1922]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 13 22:51:50 madhur-b550mds3h rtkit-daemon[1922]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 13 22:51:50 madhur-b550mds3h rtkit-daemon[1922]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
...
Jun 12 23:48:39 madhur-b550mds3h rtkit-daemon[1942]: Failed to look up client: No such file or directory
Jun 12 23:48:42 madhur-b550mds3h rtkit-daemon[1942]: Failed to look up client: No such file or directory
Jun 12 23:48:44 madhur-b550mds3h rtkit-daemon[1942]: Failed to look up client: No such file or directory

Not much aware about this daemon, however, it seems to be used by audio systems such as Pulseaudio and Pipewire

Fixing these logs is simple

systemctl edit rtkit-daemon

Add the following lines

[Service]
LogLevelMax=warning

And restart rtkit daemon using systemctl restart rtkit-daemon