[xyst]

Very interesting analysis and setup.

I wonder what is considered "unnecessary programs" by the author. Is "apparmor" or sandboxing considered in this? Or just user space applications (browser, discord, …).

I wonder if input latency would be improved if you ran setup as `root`. I wouldn’t do it for security sake, but just curious

[hoechst]

Hi, OP here. I just made sure no other user space application were running. Something that basically can be reasonable expected by a person that cares about game performance to do. For example, no one would stop sshd before their gaming session, but closing a Browser is reasonable imo.

That said, this is a pure gaming PC with a Desktop Linux installed, it's not like there's a lot running on there in the first place: no 5 random docker containers, no AppArmor and nothing in kernel space other than what comes by default with CachyOS.