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authorDave Margell <dmargell@gmail.com>2010-05-13 01:01:08 +0200
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+Schedtool interfaces with the Linux CPU scheduler.
+
+It allows the user to set and query the CPU-affinity and nice-levels of
+processes, as well as all scheduling policies, like batch or real-time
+(RR/FIFO) classes and their priorities. It can be used to avoid skipping
+for A/V-applications, to lock processes onto certain CPUs on SMP/NUMA
+systems, or to adjust nice-levels of lesser important jobs to maintain a
+high amount of interactive responsiveness under high load.
+
+All special scheduling classes of the -ck kernel patchset are also supported.
+
+Certain modes (as of this writing: SCHED_IDLEPRIO and SCHED_ISO) need a
+patched kernel; see the INSTALL file for details.