renice
renice is a Linux command in the Process Management category, rated intermediate difficulty. Changes the priority (niceness) of running processes. The syntax is renice [options] priority PID. Key options and parameters: priority, PID — new nice value, process ID. It returns none (priority changed). A practical example: renice 10 -p 1234 # Lower priority of PID 1234 renice -n -5 -u username # Change priority of user's processes renice 15 -g groupname # Change priority of process group A close relative is ps, which reports a snapshot of current processes. A close relative is top, which real-time interactive process viewer. Updates every few seconds. A close relative is kill, which sends a signal to a process. Default signal is SIGTERM (terminate). More about this category: Linux process management commands — ps, top, kill, killall, pgrep, and more. Manage running processes and system resources. Related Process Management commands: ps, top, kill, killall, pgrep, pkill, nice, nohup.