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What does renice do?

change the scheduling priority of already-running processes.

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renice examples, explained

$ renice -n 5 -p 1234

  • renicechange the scheduling priority of already-running processes
  • -nthe new absolute niceness value
  • 5value for -n
  • -pinterpret the following arguments as process IDs
  • 1234an argument passed to the command

$ renice 10 -u alice

  • renicechange the scheduling priority of already-running processes
  • 10an argument passed to the command
  • -uinterpret the following arguments as user names
  • alicean argument passed to the command

renice flags & options

-nthe new absolute niceness value
-pinterpret the following arguments as process IDs
-ginterpret the following arguments as process group IDs
-uinterpret the following arguments as user names

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