8. System administration commands (usually only for root)

RTKITCTL

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: July 1, 2009
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NAME

rtkitctl - Realtime Policy and Watchdog daemon control

SYNOPSIS

rtkitctl [options]

DESCRIPTION

RealtimeKit is a D-Bus system service that changes the scheduling policy of user processes/threads to SCHED_RR (i.e. realtime scheduling mode) on request. It is intended to be used as a secure mechanism to allow real-time scheduling to be used by normal user processes.

OPTIONS

-h, --help: Show a summary of options.
--version: Show version.
--reset-known: Reset real-time status of known threads.
--reset-all: Reset real-time status of all threads.
--start: Start RealtimeKit if it is not running already.
-k, --exit: Terminate running RealtimeKit daemon.

AUTHOR

RealtimeKit was written by Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>.

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