Name
renice
Synopsis
renice [priority
] [options
] [target
]
Controls the scheduling priority of various processes as they run. 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 privileged user may set a negative priority, as low as PRIO_MIN, to speed up processes.
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
Interpret target parameters as process group IDs.
-
-p
Interpret target parameters as process IDs (default).
-
-u
Interpret target parameters as usernames.
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