man chrt (Commandes) - manipulate real-time attributes of a process

NAME

chrt - manipulate real-time attributes of a process

SYNOPSIS

chrt [options] [prio] [pid | command [arg]...]

DESCRIPTION

chrt(1) sets or retrieves the real-time scheduling attributes of an existing PID or runs COMMAND with the given attributes. Both policy (one of SCHED_FIFO, SCHED_RR, or SCHED_OTHER) and priority can be set and retrieved.

OPTIONS

-p, --pid
operate on an existing PID and do not launch a new task

USAGE

The default behavior is to run a new command::
chrt [prio] -- [command] [arguments]
You can also retrieve the real-time attributes of an existing task:
chrt -p [pid]
Or set them:
chrt -p [prio] [pid]

PERMISSIONS

A user must possess CAP_SYS_NICE to change the scheduling attributes of a process. Any user can retrieve the scheduling information.

AUTHOR

Written by Robert M. Love.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <rml@tech9.net>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2004 Robert M. Love

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

taskset(1), nice(1), renice(1) See sched_setscheduler(2) for a description of the Linux scheduling scheme.

-f, --fifo
set scheduling policy to SCHED_FIFO
-m, --max
show minimum and maximum valid priorities, then exit
-o, --other
set policy scheduling policy to SCHED_OTHER
-r, --rr
set scheduling policy to SCHED_RR (the default)
-h, --help
display usage information and exit
-v, --version
output version information and exit