renice
Alters the scheduling priority/niceness of one or more running processes. Niceness values range from -20 (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable to the process). More information: https://manned.org/renice.
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Change priority of a running process:
renice -n {{niceness_value}} -p {{pid}}
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Change priority of all processes owned by a user:
renice -n {{niceness_value}} -u {{user}}
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Change priority of all processes that belong to a process group:
renice -n {{niceness_value}} --pgrp {{process_group}}
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