NAME

renice — modify scheduling priority of running processes

SYNOPSIS

renice [-p] -n adj PID...

renice -g -n adj PGID...

renice -u -n adj UID...

renice modifies the scheduling priority of running processes.

-g: Adjust all processes of each given process groups IDs (PGID).
-n adj: Positive or negative integer used to adjust the scheduling priority of the process relative to it's current priority. Negative adj may require appropriate privileges.
-p: Adjust each given process IDs (PID). (default)
-u: Adjust all processes of each given user IDs (UID).

The renice utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

renice should be compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 (“POSIX.1”) specification.

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>