RENICE(1)
NAME
renice − oppress running processes
SYNOPSIS
renice newnice pid1 [ pid2 ... pidn ]
DESCRIPTION
Renice will assign pid1 , ..., pidn a ’niceness’ of newnice. Positive niceness means a lower scheduling priority. Negative niceness means a high priority. The superuser may renice any process to any value. Other users may renice their own processes to any value greater than the current value.