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3.9 KiB
Groff
132 lines
3.9 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" @(#)renice.8 6.5 (Berkeley) 3/16/91
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.\"
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.Dd March 16, 1991
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.Dt RENICE 8
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.Os BSD 4
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm renice
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.Nd alter priority of running processes
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm renice
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.Ar priority
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.Oo
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.Op Fl p
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.Ar pid ...
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.Oc
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.Oo
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.Op Fl g
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.Ar pgrp ...
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.Oc
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.Oo
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.Op Fl u
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.Ar user ...
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.Oc
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm Renice
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alters the
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scheduling priority of one or more running processes.
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The following
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.Ar who
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parameters are interpreted as process ID's, process group
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ID's, or user names.
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.Nm Renice Ns 'ing
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a process group causes all processes in the process group
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to have their scheduling priority altered.
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.Nm Renice Ns 'ing
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a user causes all processes owned by the user to have
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their scheduling priority altered.
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By default, the processes to be affected are specified by
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their process ID's.
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.Pp
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Options supported by
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.Nm renice :
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It Fl g
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Force
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.Ar who
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parameters to be interpreted as process group ID's.
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.It Fl u
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Force the
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.Ar who
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parameters to be interpreted as user names.
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.It Fl p
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Resets the
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.Ar who
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interpretation to be (the default) process ID's.
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.El
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.Pp
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For example,
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.Bd -literal -offset
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renice +1 987 -u daemon root -p 32
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.Ed
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.Pp
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would change the priority of process ID's 987 and 32, and
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all processes owned by users daemon and root.
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.Pp
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Users other than the super-user may only alter the priority of
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processes they own,
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and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value''
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within the range 0 to
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.Dv PRIO_MAX
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(20).
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(This prevents overriding administrative fiats.)
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The super-user
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may alter the priority of any process
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and set the priority to any value in the range
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.Dv PRIO_MIN
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(\-20)
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to
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.Dv PRIO_MAX .
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Useful priorities are:
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20 (the affected processes will run only when nothing else
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in the system wants to),
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0 (the ``base'' scheduling priority),
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anything negative (to make things go very fast).
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /etc/passwd -compact
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.It Pa /etc/passwd
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to map user names to user ID's
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr getpriority 2 ,
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.Xr setpriority 2
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.Sh BUGS
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Non super-users can not increase scheduling priorities of their own processes,
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even if they were the ones that decreased the priorities in the first place.
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Bx 4.0 .
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