# renice

> Alters the scheduling priority/nicenesses of one or more running processes. Niceness values range from -20 (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable to the process).

- Change priority of a running process.

`renice -n {{niceness_value}} -p {{pid}}`

- Change priority of all processes owned by a user.

`renice -n {{niceness_value}} -u {{user}}`

- Change priority of all processes that belongs to a group.

`renice -n {{niceness_value}} -g {{group}}`