renice

RENICE(1)                        User Commands                       RENICE(1)

NAME
       renice - alter priority of running processes

SYNOPSIS
       renice [-n] priority [-g|-p|-u] identifier...

DESCRIPTION
       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.

OPTIONS
       -n, --priority priority
           Specify 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, --pgrp
           Interpret the succeeding arguments as process group IDs.

       -p, --pid
           Interpret the succeeding arguments as process IDs (the default).

       -u, --user
           Interpret the succeeding arguments as usernames or UIDs.

       -V, --version
           Display version information and exit.

       -h, --help
           Display help text and exit.

FILES
       /etc/passwd
           to map user names to user IDs

NOTES
       Users other than the superuser may only alter the priority of processes
       they own. Furthermore, an unprivileged user can only increase the "nice
       value" (i.e., choose a lower priority) and such changes are
       irreversible unless (since Linux 2.6.12) the user has a suitable "nice"
       resource limit (see ulimit(1p) and getrlimit(2)).

       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).

HISTORY
       The renice command appeared in 4.0BSD.

EXAMPLES
       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:

       renice +1 987 -u daemon root -p 32

SEE ALSO
       nice(1), chrt(1), getpriority(2), setpriority(2), credentials(7),
       sched(7)

REPORTING BUGS
       For bug reports, use the issue tracker at
       https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues.

AVAILABILITY
       The renice command is part of the util-linux package which can be
       downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive
       <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.

util-linux 2.37.2                 2021-06-02                         RENICE(1)