nice

Execute a program with a custom scheduling priority (niceness). Niceness values range from -20 (the highest priority) to 19 (the lowest). More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice.

Launch a program with altered priority:
nice -n {{niceness_value}} {{command}}

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