Process Management
renice
Changes the priority of running processes.
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Slackware
Alpine
Fedora
Verified: 2025-09-09
Syntax
$renice [OPTIONEN] PRIORITÄT [[-p] PID...]
Examples
$renice 10 1234
$renice -n 5 -p 1234
Typical use cases
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Standard usage
renice --help
Note
Requires root for priority boost
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