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28 .\" @(#)renice.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
29 .\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/renice/renice.8,v 1.5.2.5 2002/06/17 23:58:46 tjr Exp $
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37 .Nd alter priority of running processes
40 .Op Ar priority | Op Fl n Ar increment
41 .Op Oo Fl p Oc Ar pid ...
42 .Op Oo Fl g Oc Ar pgrp ...
43 .Op Oo Fl u Oc Ar user ...
47 scheduling priority of one or more running processes.
50 parameters are interpreted as process ID's, process group
51 ID's, user ID's or user names.
53 a process group causes all processes in the process group
54 to have their scheduling priority altered.
56 a user causes all processes owned by the user to have
57 their scheduling priority altered.
58 By default, the processes to be affected are specified by
67 parameters to be interpreted as process group ID's.
69 Instead of changing the specified processes to the given priority,
70 interpret the following argument as an increment to be applied to
71 the current priority of each process.
75 parameters to be interpreted as user names or user ID's.
79 interpretation to be (the default) process ID's.
84 .Dl "renice +1 987 -u daemon root -p 32"
86 would change the priority of process ID's 987 and 32, and
87 all processes owned by users daemon and root.
89 Users other than the super-user may only alter the priority of
91 and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value''
95 (This prevents overriding administrative fiats.)
97 may alter the priority of any process
98 and set the priority to any value in the range
103 Useful priorities are:
104 20 (the affected processes will run only when nothing else
105 in the system wants to),
106 0 (the ``base'' scheduling priority),
107 anything negative (to make things go very fast).
109 .Bl -tag -width /etc/passwd -compact
111 to map user names to user ID's
129 Non super-users cannot increase scheduling priorities of their own processes,
130 even if they were the ones that decreased the priorities in the first place.