[LAU] rtirq not setting as expected

I attempted to have one of my ethernet interfaces increased in priority using an entry in the rtirq configuration file, but it did not seem to work as seen below in the rtirq status. I expected eth2 to get set to priority 70, but it is at the default of 50 along with all the other non-sound interrupt handlers. Any help in understanding why would be appreciated. Also, is there any benefit to preventing the driver loading for the unused audio section of my video card? The video card has an audio adapter that only outputs over the hdmi port, which I am not using, but it gets set to a high priority just like my ice card. Any concern with that, or just ignore it? -- thanks, Chris Caudle Content of /etc/sysconfig/rtirq: # IRQ thread service names # (space separated list, from higher to lower priority). RTIRQ_NAME_LIST="rtc snd usb i8042 eth2" # Highest priority. RTIRQ_PRIO_HIGH=90 # Priority decrease step. RTIRQ_PRIO_DECR=5 # Whether to reset all IRQ threads to SCHED_OTHER. RTIRQ_RESET_ALL=0 # On kernel configurations that support it, # which services should be NOT threaded # (space separated list). RTIRQ_NON_THREADED="rtc snd" # Process names which will be forced to the # highest realtime priority range (99-91) # (space separated list, from highest to lower priority). # RTIRQ_HIGH_LIST="timer" -------------------------------- result of rtirq status: $ /etc/rc.d/init.d/rtirq status PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND 112 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S irq/8-rtc0 677 FF 85 - 125 0.0 S irq/69-snd_hda_ 713 FF 85 - 125 0.0 S irq/20-snd_ice1 104 FF 80 - 120 0.0 S irq/10-ohci_hcd 106 FF 79 - 119 0.0 S irq/10-ohci_hcd 109 FF 75 - 115 0.0 S irq/1-i8042 108 FF 74 - 114 0.0 S irq/12-i8042 41 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/9-acpi 102 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/10-ehci_hcd 225 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/64-radeon 329 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/14-pata_ser 330 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/15-pata_ser 332 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/11-sata_svw 345 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/18-firewire 350 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/65-cciss0 1217 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/16-eth0 1300 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/70-eth1 1374 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/71-eth2 3 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/0 18 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/1 25 FF 1 - 41 0.0 S ksoftirqd/2 31 FF 1 - 41 0.0 S ksoftirqd/3