User guide

sp — set priority

Modiﬁes the priority of a process. Changing the priority of the process impacts

the behavior of the process and the rest of the system.

Syntax

process_id new_priority

Arguments

process_id

Speciﬁes the process ID (PID) of the process to be modiﬁed.

new_priority

Speciﬁes the new priority for the process. Priority values range from 0 to 7 where

7 is the highest.

Example

>>> memtest -p 0 &

>>> ps | grep memtest

00000025 001a9700 2 23691 00000001 0 memtest ready

>>> sp 25 3

>>> ps | grep memtest

00000025 001a9700 3 125955 00000001 0 memtest ready

>>>

Raises the priority of process 25 from 2 to 3.