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
targetparameters as process GIDs.-
-p Interpret
targetparameters as PIDs (default).-
-u Interpret
targetparameters as usernames.
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