chrt

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manipulate the real-time attributes of a process

User commands 16 optionsutil-linux 2.41-5

chrt [options] priority command argument ... chrt [options] -p [priority] PID

Options

-o--other

Set scheduling policy to SCHED_OTHER (time-sharing scheduling). This is the default Linux scheduling policy.

-f--fifo

Set scheduling policy to SCHED_FIFO (first in-first out).

-r--rr

Set scheduling policy to SCHED_RR (round-robin scheduling). When no policy is defined, the SCHED_RR is used as the default.

-b--batch

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

-i--idle

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

-d--deadline

Set scheduling policy to SCHED_DEADLINE (sporadic task model deadline scheduling). 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.

-T--sched-runtimenanoseconds

Specifies runtime parameter for SCHED_DEADLINE and custom slice length for SCHED_OTHER and SCHED_BATCH policies (Linux-specific). Note that custom slice length via the runtime parameter is supported since Linux 6.12.

-P--sched-periodnanoseconds

Specifies period parameter for SCHED_DEADLINE policy (Linux-specific). Note that the kernel’s lower limit is 100 milliseconds.

-D--sched-deadlinenanoseconds

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

-R--reset-on-fork

Use SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK or SCHED_FLAG_RESET_ON_FORK flag. Linux-specific, supported since 2.6.31. Each thread has a reset-on-fork scheduling flag. When this flag is set, children created by fork(2) do not inherit privileged scheduling policies. After the reset-on-fork flag has been enabled, it can be reset only if the thread has the CAP_SYS_NICE capability. This flag is disabled in child processes created by fork(2). More precisely, if the reset-on-fork flag is set, the following rules apply for subsequently created children: •If the calling thread has a scheduling policy of SCHED_FIFO or SCHE

-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.

-h--help

Display help text and exit.

-V--version

Display version and exit.

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 (time-sharing scheduling). This is the default Linux scheduling policy.

-f, --fifo

Set scheduling policy to SCHED_FIFO (first in-first out).

-r, --rr

Set scheduling policy to SCHED_RR (round-robin scheduling). When no policy is defined, the SCHED_RR is used as the default.

-b, --batch

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

-i, --idle

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

-d, --deadline

Set scheduling policy to SCHED_DEADLINE (sporadic task model deadline scheduling). 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.

EXAMPLES

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

This, for example, sets real-time scheduling to priority 30 for the process PID with the SCHED_RR (round-robin) class:

chrt -r -p 30 PID

Reset priorities to default for a process:

chrt -o -p 0 PID

See sched(7) for a detailed discussion of the different scheduler classes and how they interact.

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.

AUTHORS

Robert Love rml@tech9.net, Karel Zak kzak@redhat.com

REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the issue tracker https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.

AVAILABILITY

The chrt command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.