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renice(8)							     renice(8)

NAME
       renice - Alters the priority of a running process

SYNOPSIS
       The following syntax format is recommended: /usr/sbin/renice [-n incre‐
       ment] [-p] [-g  | -u] ID...

       The following syntax format is obsolescent:  /usr/sbin/renice  priority
       [-p] pid... [-g pgrp...] [-u user...]

STANDARDS
       Interfaces  documented on this reference page conform to industry stan‐
       dards as follows:

       renice: XCU5.0

       Refer to the standards(5) reference page	 for  more  information	 about
       industry standards and associated tags.

OPTIONS
       Takes  the  current  priority and adds the increment.  A negative value
       for increment causes the process to run at a lower numbered,  therefore
       faster,	priority.  Interprets operands following the option as process
       group IDs.  Interprets operands following the  option  as  user	names.
       Resets renice operand interpretation to be process IDs (the default).

OPERANDS
       A  value	 interpreted  as the actual system scheduling priority, rather
       than as an increment to the  existing  system  scheduling  priority  as
       specified  in  the  recommended form of the command. The priority value
       may be any integer from -20 to 20, including 0,	as  explained  in  the
       DESCRIPTION  section.   A  user	name or user ID.  All processes with a
       set_user_ID equal to the specified value are affected.  A process group
       ID.   All  processes  in the process group are affected.	 A process ID.
       Only this process is affected.  A value interpreted  as	a  user	 name,
       user  ID,  a process group ID, or a process ID, depending on the option
       specified.  If no options are specified, the value is interpreted as  a
       process ID.

DESCRIPTION
       The  renice  command alters the scheduling priority of one or more run‐
       ning processes.	The ID operands (in the recommended syntax format)  or
       the option arguments (in the obsolescent syntax format) are interpreted
       as process IDs, process group IDs, or user names.  When you  issue  the
       renice  command	with the -g option, all processes in the process group
       have their scheduling priority altered.	When you run the  renice  com‐
       mand  with  the	-u  option, all processes owned by the user have their
       scheduling priority altered.  By default, the  processes	 affected  are
       specified by their process IDs.

       Only  root can alter the priority of other user's processes and can set
       the priority to any value in the range from -20 to 20.	Users  without
       root  privileges	 are  restricted to altering the priority of processes
       they own and can only increase their "nice value" within the range of 0
       to 20.

       The  following  priorities  are particularly useful: Runs affected pro‐
       cesses when no other processes are running on the system.  Runs at  the
       base scheduling priority.  Runs affected processes very quickly.

       [Tru64  UNIX]  The  preceding values are mapped by the command to those
       actually used by the kernel.

       [Tru64 UNIX]  Users who do not have root privileges cannot increase the
       scheduling  priorities  of their own processes (even if they had origi‐
       nally decreased those priorities).

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values are returned:

       Successful completion An error occurred

EXAMPLES
       To change the priority of process IDs 987 and  32,  and	all  processes
       owned by the daemon and root users, enter: renice +1 987 -u daemon root
       -p 32

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       The following environment variables affect  the	execution  of  renice:
       Provides	 a  default  value for the internationalization variables that
       are unset or null. If LANG is unset or null,  the  corresponding	 value
       from  the  default  locale  is used. If any of the internationalization
       variables contain an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none of
       the  variables  had  been defined.  If set to a non-empty string value,
       overrides the values of all the other  internationalization  variables.
       Determines  the	locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of
       text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to	multi‐
       byte  characters	 in  arguments).  Determines the locale for the format
       and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.	Deter‐
       mines  the location of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MES‐
       SAGES.

FILES
       Specifies the command path

SEE ALSO
       Commands: nice(1)

       Functions: getpriority(2)

       Others: standards(5)

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