diff --git a/src/uu/nproc/src/nproc.rs b/src/uu/nproc/src/nproc.rs
index 9edf21bf6..1e76f81df 100644
--- a/src/uu/nproc/src/nproc.rs
+++ b/src/uu/nproc/src/nproc.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
-// spell-checker:ignore (ToDO) NPROCESSORS nprocs numstr sysconf
+// spell-checker:ignore (ToDO) NPROCESSORS SCHED getscheduler nprocs numstr sched sysconf
 
 use clap::{Arg, ArgAction, Command};
 use std::io::{Write, stdout};
@@ -67,7 +67,16 @@ pub fn uumain(args: impl uucore::Args) -> UResult<()> {
             }
             // the variable 'OMP_NUM_THREADS' doesn't exist
             // fallback to the regular CPU detection
-            Err(_) => available_parallelism(),
+            Err(_) => {
+                // ignore quota under some schedulers
+                #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))]
+                match unsafe { libc::sched_getscheduler(0) } {
+                    libc::SCHED_FIFO | libc::SCHED_RR | libc::SCHED_DEADLINE => num_cpus_all(),
+                    _ => available_parallelism(), // include fallback for error
+                }
+                #[cfg(not(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android")))]
+                available_parallelism()
+            }
         }
     };