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.TH RTKITCTL 8 "July 1, 2009"
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.SH NAME
rtkitctl \- Realtime Policy and Watchdog daemon control
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B rtkitctl
.RI [ options ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B 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.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show a summary of options.
.TP
.B \-\-version
Show version.
.TP
.B \-\-reset\-known
Reset real-time status of known threads.
.TP
.B \-\-reset\-all
Reset real-time status of all threads.
.TP
.B \-\-start
Start RealtimeKit if it is not running already.
.TP
.B \-k, \-\-exit
Terminate running RealtimeKit daemon.
.SH AUTHOR
RealtimeKit was written by Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>.