renice(1M)renice(1M)NAMErenice - alter priority of running processes
SYNOPSIS
/etc/renice [ -n increment | priority ] [ [ -p ] pid ... ]
[ [ -g ] pgrp ... ] [ [ -u ] user ... ]
DESCRIPTIONrenice alters the scheduling priority of one or more running processes.
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.
The -n increment specifies how the system scheduling priority of the
specified process(es) is to be adjusted. The increment option-argument
is a positive or negative decimal integer that is used to modify the
system scheduling priority of the specified process(es). The priority
value is taken as the actual system scheduling priority, rather than as
an increment to the existing scheduling priority.
The parameters are interpreted as process ID's, process group ID's, or
user names as follows. By default, the processes to be affected are
specified by their process ID's. To force parameters to be interpreted
as process group ID's, the -g option can be used. To force the
parameters to be interpreted as user names, the -u option can be used.
Supplying -p resets interpretation to be (the default) process ID's. For
example,
/etc/renice +1 987 -u daemon root -p 32
changes the priority of process ID's 987 and 32, and all processes owned
by users daemon and root.
Users other than the superuser can only alter the priority of processes
they own and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value'' within
the range 0 to PRIO_MAX (20). (This prevents overriding administrative
fiats.) The superuser can alter the priority of any process and set the
priority to any value in the range PRIO_MIN (-20) to PRIO_MAX. Useful
priorities are:
20 The affected processes run only when nothing else in the system
wants to.
0 The ``base'' scheduling priority.
anything negative
Make things go very fast.
FILES
/etc/passwd to map user names to user ID's
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renice(1M)renice(1M)SEE ALSOgetpriority(2), setpriority(2).
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