How To Install rtkit on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtkit
on CentOS 7.
What is rtkit
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.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install rtkit
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rtkit.
Install rtkit on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rtkit
using yum
by running the following command:
Install rtkit on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rtkit
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall rtkit on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the rtkit
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtkit
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.