Name
renice
Synopsis
renice [priority
] [options
] [target
]
Control the scheduling priority of running processes. May be applied to a process, process group, or user (target). A privileged user may alter the priority of other users’ processes. priority must, for ordinary users, lie between 0 and the environment variable PRIO_MAX (normally 20), with a higher number indicating increased niceness. A higher niceness value means that the process will run at a lower priority. A privileged user may set a negative priority, as low as PRIO_MIN (normally −20), to speed up processes. See the nice command for setting the scheduling priority for processes when they are initially run.
Options
- +num
Specify number by which to increase current priority of process, rather than an absolute priority number.
- -num
Specify number by which to decrease current priority of process, rather than an absolute priority number.
- -g, --pgrp
Interpret target parameters as process group IDs.
- -p, --pid
Interpret target parameters as process IDs (default).
- -u, --user
Interpret target parameters as usernames.
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