HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

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 IDs