rtkitctl (8) Linux Manual Page

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 [at] poettering.net>.