chrt man page on ElementaryOS

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CHRT(1)				 User Commands			       CHRT(1)

NAME
       chrt - manipulate the real-time attributes of a process

SYNOPSIS
       chrt [options] prio command [arg]...
       chrt [options] -p [prio] pid

DESCRIPTION
       chrt sets or retrieves the real-time scheduling attributes of an exist‐
       ing pid, or runs command with the given attributes.  Both  policy  (one
       of  SCHED_OTHER,	 SCHED_FIFO, SCHED_RR, SCHED_BATCH, or SCHED_IDLE) and
       priority can be set and retrieved.

       The SCHED_BATCH policy is supported since Linux 2.6.16.	The SCHED_IDLE
       policy is supported since Linux 2.6.23.

       The  SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK	 flag  for policies SCHED_RR and SCHED_FIFO is
       supported since Linux 2.6.31.

OPTIONS
       -a, --all-tasks
	      Set or retrieve the  scheduling  attributes  of  all  the	 tasks
	      (threads) for a given PID.

       -b, --batch
	      Set scheduling policy to SCHED_BATCH (Linux specific).

       -f, --fifo
	      Set scheduling policy to SCHED_FIFO.

       -i, --idle
	      Set scheduling policy to SCHED_IDLE (Linux specific).

       -m, --max
	      Show minimum and maximum valid priorities, then exit.

       -o, --other
	      Set policy scheduling policy to SCHED_OTHER.

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

       -r, --rr
	      Set scheduling policy to SCHED_RR (the default).

       -R, --reset-on-fork
	      Add  SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK	flag  to  the  SCHED_FIFO  or SCHED_RR
	      scheduling policy (Linux specific).

       -v, --verbose
	      Show status information.

       -h, --help
	      Display usage information and exit.

       -V, --version
	      Display version information and exit.

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.

NOTES
       Only  SCHED_FIFO,  SCHED_OTHER  and  SCHED_RR are part of POSIX 1003.1b
       Process Scheduling. The other scheduling attributes may be  ignored  on
       some systems.

AUTHOR
       Written by Robert M. Love.

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.

AVAILABILITY
       The chrt command is part of the util-linux  package  and	 is  available
       from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

util-linux			   June 2010			       CHRT(1)
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