Hack 101. Renice Command Examples

Renice alters the scheduling priority of a running process.

To increase the nice value (thus reducing the priority), execute the renice command as shown below.

How to increase the priority of a running process? (Decrease nice)

In the example below, an existing shell-script is running at a nice value of 10. (6th column in the ps output)

[Note: The 6th column now shows a lower nice value of 5 (increased priority)]