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nice

SafeRun with priority

nice -n 19 <command>

Starts a process at a niceness (-20 hot to 19 cold). renice adjusts running ones. Tame batch jobs.

Examples

  • renice -n 10 -p 1234Lower a running process

Syntax

nice -n N <cmd> / renice -n N -p PID

Before you run it

Raising priority needs root.

Related commands

  • topLive process monitor
  • psProcess snapshot

The same reference, with no signal at all

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