renice(1)							   User Commands							 renice(1)

NAME

       renice - alter priority of running processes

SYNOPSIS

       renice [-n increment] [-i idtype] ID...

       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 priorities are: 19 (the affected processes will run only when nothing else
       in the system wants to); 0 (the "base" scheduling 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:

	 o  The first operand, priority, must precede the options and can have the appearance of a multi-digit option.

	 o  The -g, -p, and -u options can each take multiple option-arguments.

	 o  The pid option-argument can be used without its -p option.

	 o  The  -i option can be used to specify the ID type for the ID list. This is preferred in specifying ID type over the use of the -g | -p
	    | -u syntax, which is now obsolete. See NOTES.

       The following options are supported:

       -g	       Interprets all operands or just the gid arguments as unsigned decimal integer process group IDs.

       -i	       This option, together with the ID list arguments, specifies a class of processes to which the renice command is	to  apply.
		       The interpretation of the ID list depends on the value of idtype. The valid idtype arguments are: pid, pgid, uid, gid, sid,
		       taskid, projid, and zoneid.

       -n increment    Specifies 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 speci-
		       fied 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	       Interprets  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	       Interprets 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 inte-
		       ger, 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: Adjusting the scheduling priority of process IDs

       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

       Example 2: Adjusting the scheduling priority of group IDs

       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

       Example 3: Adjusting the scheduling priority of a user ID and user name

       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: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
       SAGES, 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 IDs

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       nice(1), passwd(1), priocntl(1), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)

NOTES

       The renice syntax

       renice [-n increment] [-i idtype] ID ...

       is preferred over the old syntax

       renice [-n increment] [-g | -p| -u] ID ...

       which is now obsolete.

       If you make the priority very negative, then the process cannot be interrupted.

       To regain control you must 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 5.10							    9 Jan 2004								 renice(1)