renice(8)renice(8)NAMErenice - 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)renice(8)