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39 .Nd execute, examine or modify a utility's or process's realtime
40 or idletime scheduling priority
62 utility is used for controlling realtime process scheduling.
66 utility is used for controlling idletime process scheduling, and can be called
67 with the same options as
70 A process with a realtime priority is not subject to priority
71 degradation, and will only be preempted by another process of equal or
72 higher realtime priority.
74 A process with an idle priority will run only when no other
75 process is runnable and then only if its idle priority is equal or
76 greater than all other runnable idle priority processes.
82 when called without arguments will return the realtime priority
83 of the current process.
87 is called with 1 argument, it will return the realtime priority
88 of the process with the specified
93 is specified, the process or program is run at that realtime priority.
96 is specified, the process or program is run as a normal (non-realtime)
101 is specified, the process with the process identifier
103 will be modified, else if
105 is specified, that program is run with its arguments.
108 is an integer between 0 and RTP_PRIO_MAX (usually 31). 0 is the
112 of 0 means "the current process".
114 Only root is allowed to set realtime or idle priority for a process.
118 execute a command, the exit value is that of the command executed.
121 exits 0 on success, and 1 for all other errors.
123 To see which realtime priority the current process is at:
124 .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
128 To see which realtime priority of process
130 .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
136 at the lowest realtime priority:
137 .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
141 To change the realtime priority of process
145 .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
146 .Sy "rtprio 16 -1423"
151 without realtime priority:
152 .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
153 .Sy "rtprio -t tcpdump"
156 To change the realtime priority of process
160 (non-realtime/normal priority):
161 .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
162 .Sy "rtprio -t -1423"
165 To make depend while not disturbing other machine usage:
166 .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
167 .Sy "idprio 31 make depend"
181 but is similar to the HP-UX version.
184 .An Henrik Vestergaard Draboel Aq Mt hvd@terry.ping.dk
185 is the original author.
186 This implementation was substantially rewritten by
189 You can lock yourself out of the system by placing a cpu-heavy
190 process in a realtime priority.
192 There is no way to set/view the realtime priority of process 0
198 no way to ensure that a process page is present in memory therefore
199 the process may be stopped for pagein (see
205 system calls are currently never preempted, therefore non-realtime
206 processes can starve realtime processes, or idletime processes can
207 starve normal priority processes.