renice
User Commands renice(1)NAME
renice - alter priority of running processesSYNOPSIS
renice [ -n increment ] [ -g | -p | -u ] ID ... renice priority [ -p ] pid ... [ -g gid ... ] [ -p pid ... ] [ -u user ... ] renice priority -g gid ... [ -g gid ... ] [ -p pid ... ] [ -u user ... ] renice priority -u user ... [ -g gid ... ] [ -p pid ... ] [ -u user ... ]DESCRIPTION
The renice command alters the scheduling priority of one or more running processes. By default, the processes to be affected are specified by their process IDs. If the first operand is a number within the valid range of priorities (-20 to 20), renice will treat it as a priority (as in all but the first synopsis form); otherwise, renice will treat it as an ID (as in the first synopsis form). Altering Process Priority Users other than the privileged user may only alter the priority of processes they own, and can only monotonically increase their "nice value" within the range 0 to 19. This prevents overriding administrative fiats. The privileged user may alter the priority of any process and set the priority to any value in the range -20 to 19. Useful priori- ties are: 19 (the affected processes will run only when nothing else in the system wants to), 0 (the "base" schedul- ing priority) and any negative value (to make things go very fast). 20 is an acceptable nice value, but will be rounded down to 19.OPTIONS
renice supports the following option features: + The first operand, priority, must precede the options and can have the appearance of a multi-digit option. + The -g, -p and -u options can each take multiple option-arguments. + The pid option-argument can be used without its -p option. The following options are supported: SunOS 5.8 Last change: 3 Jan 1996 1 User Commands renice(1) -g Interpret all operands or just the gid arguments as unsigned decimal integer process group IDs. -nincrement Specify how the system scheduling priority of the specified process or processes is to be adjusted. The increment option-argument is a positive or negative decimal integer that will be used to modify the system scheduling priority of the specified process or processes. Positive increment values cause a lower system scheduling priority. Negative increment values may require appropriate privileges and will cause a higher system scheduling priority. -p Interpret all operands or just the pid arguments as unsigned decimal integer process IDs. The -p option is the default if no options are specified. -u Interpret all operands or just the user argument as users. If a user exists with a user name equal to the operand, then the user ID of that user will be used in further processing. Otherwise, if the operand represents an unsigned decimal integer, it will be used as the numeric user ID of the user.OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: ID A process ID, process group ID or user name/user ID, depending on the option selected. priority The value specified is taken as the actual system scheduling priority, rather than as an increment to the existing system scheduling priority. Specifying a scheduling priority higher than that of the existing process may require appropriate privileges. EXAMPLES Example 1: Examples of renice. Adjust the system scheduling priority so that process IDs 987 and 32 would have a lower scheduling priority: example% renice -n 5 -p 987 32 Adjust the system scheduling priority so that group IDs 324 and 76 would have a higher scheduling priority, if the user has the appropriate privileges to do so: example% renice -n -4 -g 324 76 SunOS 5.8 Last change: 3 Jan 1996 2 User Commands renice(1) Adjust the system scheduling priority so that numeric user ID 8 and user sas would have a lower scheduling priority: example% renice -n 4 -u 8 sas ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of renice: LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. >0 An error occurred.FILES
/etc/passwd" map user names to user ID'sATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri- butes: ____________________________________________________________ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |_____________________________|_____________________________| | Availability | SUNWcsu | |_____________________________|_____________________________|SEE ALSO
nice(1), passwd(1), priocntl(1), attributes(5), environ(5)NOTES
If you make the priority very negative, then the process cannot be interrupted. To regain control make the priority greater than 0. Users other than the privileged user cannot increase scheduling priorities of their own processes, even if they were the ones that decreased the priorities in the first place. The priocntl command subsumes the function of renice. SunOS 5.8 Last change: 3 Jan 1996 3