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On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:32:42 +1000
Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote:

> I can't seem to get my head on straight with the realtime scheduling
> in FBSD despite all my googling. Can someone give me a pointer to the 
> latest info? As far as I can tell FBSD has it, but only root(?) can
> use it?
> 
> I'm interested in who can use it, and how to allow a user to obtain
> the realtime access.

see rtprio(1). It has to be run as root so you would probably want use
sudo.