Why the process priority of Pulseaudio is -11?

Why it so low? Sometime when cpu is high load sound through Pulseaudio becomes choppy. I think this happens because process priority of Pulseaudio has so low value. So why it so low by default if it can cause problems.


High nice values correspond to low priorities for a process. So a nice value of -11 actually means that Pulse Audio is running with higher priority than most processes on the system.