renice — alter priority of running processes
renice [−n] priority [ −g | −p | −u ] identifier...
renice
alters the scheduling priority of one or more running
processes. The first argument is the priority value to be used. The
other arguments are interpreted as process IDs (by default),
process group IDs, user IDs, or user names. renice'ing a process group
causes all processes in the process group to have their
scheduling priority altered. renice'ing a user causes
all processes owned by the user to have their scheduling
priority altered.
−n,
−−priority prioritySpecify the scheduling priority to be used for
the process, process group, or user. Use of the option
−n or −−priority is optional, but
when used it must be the first argument.
−g,
−−pgrpInterpret the succeeding arguments as process group IDs.
−p,
−−pidInterpret the succeeding arguments as process IDs (the default).
−u,
−−userInterpret the succeeding arguments as usernames or UIDs.
−V,
−−versionDisplay version information and exit.
−h,
−−helpDisplay help text and exit.
The following command would change the priority of the processes with PIDs 987 and 32, plus all processes owned by the users daemon and root:
Users other than the superuser may only alter the priority of processes they own, and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value'' (for security reasons) within the range 0 to 19, unless a nice resource limit is set (Linux 2.6.12 and higher). The superuser may alter the priority of any process and set the priority to any value in the range −20 to 19. Useful priorities are: 19 (the affected processes will run only when nothing else in the system wants to), 0 (the ``base'' scheduling priority), anything negative (to make things go very fast).
Non-superusers cannot increase scheduling priorities of their own processes, even if they were the ones that decreased the priorities in the first place.
The Linux kernel (at least version 2.0.0) and linux libc (at least version 5.2.18) does not agree entirely on what the specifics of the systemcall interface to set nice values is. Thus causes renice to report bogus previous nice values.
The renice command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive
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