tldr/pages/common/renice.md
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renice

Alters the scheduling priority/nicenesses of one or more running processes. Niceness values range from -20 (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable to the process).

  • Change priority of a running process:

renice -n {{niceness_value}} -p {{pid}}

  • Change priority of all processes owned by a user:

renice -n {{niceness_value}} -u {{user}}

  • Change priority of all processes that belongs to a group:

renice -n {{niceness_value}} -g {{group}}