rtkitctl(8)

rtkitctl8

Realtime policy and watchdog daemon control

Usage

rtkitctl [options]

Overview

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.

--suspend

Temporarily reset real-time status of known threads.

--resume

Restore real-time status of known threads temporarily reset by suspend.

--start

Start RealtimeKit if it is not running already.

-k, --exit

Terminate running RealtimeKit daemon.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 7–13
  2. Arch

--resume since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --suspend since Arch Linux 2026-11-01.

Author

RealtimeKit was written by Lennart Poettering <[email protected]>.

From rtkit 0.14-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.