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+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1994, Henrik Vestergaard Draboel
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.Dd December 8, 2021
+.Dt RTPRIO 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm rtprio ,
+.Nm idprio
+.Nd execute, examine or modify a utility's or process's realtime
+or idletime scheduling priority
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm [id|rt]prio
+.Nm [id|rt]prio
+.Oo Fl Oc Ns Ar pid
+.Nm [id|rt]prio
+.Ar priority
+.Ar command
+.Op args
+.Nm [id|rt]prio
+.Ar priority
+.Fl Ar pid
+.Nm [id|rt]prio
+.Fl t
+.Ar command
+.Op args
+.Nm [id|rt]prio
+.Fl t
+.Fl Ar pid
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+utility is used for controlling realtime process scheduling.
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm idprio
+utility is used for controlling idletime process scheduling, and can be called
+with the same options as
+.Nm .
+.Pp
+A process with a realtime priority is not subject to priority
+degradation, and will only be preempted by another process of equal or
+higher realtime priority.
+.Pp
+A process with an idle priority will run only when no other
+process is runnable and then only if its idle priority is equal or
+greater than all other runnable idle priority processes.
+.Pp
+Both
+.Nm
+or
+.Nm idprio
+when called without arguments will return the realtime priority
+of the current process.
+.Pp
+If
+.Nm
+is called with 1 argument, it will return the realtime priority
+of the process with the specified
+.Ar pid .
+.Pp
+If
+.Ar priority
+is specified, the process or program is run at that realtime priority.
+If
+.Fl t
+is specified, the process or program is run as a normal (non-realtime)
+process.
+.Pp
+If
+.Ar -pid
+is specified, the process with the process identifier
+.Ar pid
+will be modified, else if
+.Ar command
+is specified, that program is run with its arguments.
+.Pp
+.Ar Priority
+is an integer between 0 and RTP_PRIO_MAX (usually 31).
+0 is the
+highest priority
+.Pp
+.Ar Pid
+of 0 means "the current process".
+.Pp
+Only root is allowed to set realtime or idle priority for a process.
+Exceptional privileges can be granted through the
+.Xr mac_priority 4
+policy and the realtime and idletime user groups.
+The
+.Xr sysctl 8
+variable
+.Va security.bsd.unprivileged_idprio
+is deprecated.
+If set to non-zero, it lets any user modify the idle priority of processes
+they own.
+.Pp
+Note that idle priority increases the chance that a deadlock can occur
+if a process locks a required resource and then does
+not get to run.
+.Sh EXIT STATUS
+If
+.Nm
+execute a command, the exit value is that of the command executed.
+In all other cases,
+.Nm
+exits 0 on success, and 1 for all other errors.
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+To see which realtime priority the current process is at:
+.Dl rtprio
+.Pp
+To see which realtime priority of process 1423:
+.Dl "rtprio 1423"
+.Pp
+To run
+.Xr cron 8
+at the lowest realtime priority:
+.Dl "rtprio 31 cron"
+.Pp
+To change the realtime priority of process 1423 to 16:
+.Dl "rtprio 16 -1423"
+.Pp
+To run
+.Xr tcpdump 1
+without realtime priority:
+.Dl "rtprio -t tcpdump"
+.Pp
+To change the realtime priority of process 1423
+to
+.Dv RTP_PRIO_NORMAL
+(non-realtime/normal priority):
+.Dl "rtprio -t -1423"
+.Pp
+To make depend while not disturbing other machine usage:
+.Dl "idprio 31 make depend"
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr nice 1 ,
+.Xr ps 1 ,
+.Xr rtprio 2 ,
+.Xr setpriority 2 ,
+.Xr nice 3 ,
+.Xr mac_priority 4 ,
+.Xr renice 8
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+utility appeared in
+.Fx 2.0 ,
+but is similar to the HP-UX version.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+.An Henrik Vestergaard Draboel Aq Mt hvd@terry.ping.dk
+is the original author.
+This
+implementation in
+.Fx
+was substantially rewritten by
+.An David Greenman .
+.Sh CAVEATS
+You can lock yourself out of the system by placing a cpu-heavy
+process in a realtime priority.
+.Sh BUGS
+There is no way to set/view the realtime priority of process 0
+(swapper) (see
+.Xr ps 1 ) .
+.Pp
+There is in
+.Fx
+no way to ensure that a process page is present in memory therefore
+the process may be stopped for pagein (see
+.Xr mprotect 2 ,
+.Xr madvise 2 ) .
+.Pp
+Under
+.Fx
+system calls are currently never preempted, therefore non-realtime
+processes can starve realtime processes, or idletime processes can
+starve normal priority processes.