MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

renice(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities renice(1)

PORTABILITY

POSIX.2. x/OPEN Portability Guide 4.0. All UNIX systems.

POSIX considers all but the ﬁrst form of the renice command to be obsolescent.

MPE/iX NOTES

Normally, the priority of an

MPE/iX process undergoes cyclical degradation. When the process

begins running, it has a high priority. As the process continues to run, this priority is lowered

until it hits the lowest point in the cycle. At this point, the priority begins to get higher and

higher until it hits the original high priority. The cycle then begins again. The renice com-

mand turns this degradation off and locks the process at the given priority.

For more information on how the current

MPE/iX implementation may affect the operation of

this utility, see Appendix A, MPE/iX Implementation Considerations.