renice

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Alter the scheduling priority/niceness of running processes. Niceness values range from -20 (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable to the process). See also: `nice`.

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Examples (3)

Increase/decrease the priority of a running [p]rocess

renice -n 3 -p pid

Increase/decrease the priority of all processes owned by a [u]ser

renice -n -4 -u uid|user

Increase/decrease the priority of all processes that belong to a process [g]roup

renice -n 5 -g process_group

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