renice Command Examples

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. More information: https://manned.org/renice.

• 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}}