renice.1m (2010 09)
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renice(1M) renice(1M)
Change the system nice value for all processes owned by user
john and user 123 to 33 (newoffset=13).
(Affecting other users processes requires appropriate privileges.)
renice -n 13 -u john 123
Change the system nice value of all processes in process group 20 to
10. (Lowering the system nice value
of a process group requires appropriate privileges.)
renice -n -10 -g 20
WARNINGS
Users who do not have appropriate privileges cannot reduce the system nice values of their own
processes, even if they increased them in the first place.
FILES
/etc/passwd Maps user names to user ID’s
SEE ALSO
nice(1), ps(1), getpriority(2), nice(2).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
renice: XPG4
2 Hewlett-Packard Company − 2 − HP-UX 11i Version 3: September 2010