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37 .Nd alter priority of running processes
71 scheduling priority of one or more running processes.
74 parameters are interpreted as process ID's, process group
77 a process group causes all processes in the process group
78 to have their scheduling priority altered.
80 a user causes all processes owned by the user to have
81 their scheduling priority altered.
82 By default, the processes to be affected are specified by
91 parameters to be interpreted as process group ID's.
93 Instead of changing the specified processes to the given priority,
94 interpret the following argument as an increment to be applied to
95 the current priority of each process.
99 parameters to be interpreted as user names.
103 interpretation to be (the default) process ID's.
107 .Bd -literal -offset indent
108 renice +1 987 -u daemon root -p 32
111 would change the priority of process ID's 987 and 32, and
112 all processes owned by users daemon and root.
114 Users other than the super-user may only alter the priority of
116 and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value''
117 within the range 0 to
120 (This prevents overriding administrative fiats.)
122 may alter the priority of any process
123 and set the priority to any value in the range
129 Useful priorities are:
130 0, the ``base'' scheduling priority;
131 20, the affected processes will run only when nothing at the base priority
133 anything negative, the processes will receive a scheduling preference.
135 .Bl -tag -width /etc/passwd -compact
137 to map user names to user ID's
150 Non super-users can not increase scheduling priorities of their own processes,
151 even if they were the ones that decreased the priorities in the first place.