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Name

chrt — manipulate the real-time attributes of a process

Synopsis

chrt [options] priority command [ argument... ]

chrt [options] −p [priority] pid

DESCRIPTION

chrt sets or retrieves the real-time scheduling attributes of an existing pid, or runs command with the given attributes.

POLICIES

−o, −−other

Set scheduling policy to SCHED_OTHER. This is the default Linux scheduling policy.

−f, −−fifo

Set scheduling policy to SCHED_FIFO.

−r, −−rr

Set scheduling policy to SCHED_RR. When no policy is defined, the SCHED_RR is used as the default.

−b, −−batch

Set scheduling policy to SCHED_BATCH (Linux-specific, supported since 2.6.16). The priority argument has to be set to zero.

−i, −−idle

Set scheduling policy to SCHED_IDLE (Linux-specific, supported since 2.6.23). The priority argument has to be set to zero.

−d, −−deadline

Set scheduling policy to SCHED_DEADLINE (Linux-specific, supported since 3.14). The priority argument has to be set to zero. See also −−sched−runtime, −−sched−deadline and −−sched−period. The relation between the options required by the kernel is runtime <= deadline <= period. chrt copies period to deadline if −−sched−deadline is not specified and deadline to runtime if −−sched−runtime is not specified. It means that at least −−sched−period has to be specified. See sched(7) for more details.

SCHEDULING OPTIONS

−T, −−sched−runtime nanoseconds

Specifies runtime parameter for SCHED_DEADLINE policy (Linux-specific).

−P, −−sched−period nanoseconds

Specifies period parameter for SCHED_DEADLINE policy (Linux-specific).

−D, −−sched−deadline nanoseconds

Specifies deadline parameter for SCHED_DEADLINE policy (Linux-specific).

−R, −−reset−on−fork

Add SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK flag to the SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR scheduling policy (Linux-specific, supported since 2.6.31).

OPTIONS

−a, −−all−tasks

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

−m, −−max

Show minimum and maximum valid priorities, then exit.

−p, −−pid

Operate on an existing PID and do not launch a new task.

−v, −−verbose

Show status information.

−V, −−version

Display version information and exit.

−h, −−help

Display help text and exit.

USAGE

The default behavior is to run a new command:

chrt priority command[arguments]

You can also retrieve the real-time attributes of an existing task:

chrt −p pid

Or set them:

chrt −r −p priority 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.

Linux' default scheduling policy is SCHED_OTHER.

SEE ALSO

taskset(1), nice(1), renice(1), sched(7)

See sched_setscheduler(2) for a description of the Linux scheduling scheme.

AUTHORS

Robert Love

Karel Zak

AVAILABILITY

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


  chrt(1) manpage

Copyright (C) 2004 Robert Love
Copyright (C) 2015 Karel Zak <kzakredhat.com>

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