.TH RENICE 1 .UC .SH NAME renice \- oppress running processes .SH SYNOPSIS .B renice newnice pid1 [ pid2 ... pidn ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Renice will assign .I pid1 , ..., .I pidn a ``niceness'' of .IR newnice . Positive niceness means a lower scheduling priority. Negative niceness means a high priority. The super-user may renice any process to any value. Other users may renice their own processes to any value greater than the current value. .SH SEE ALSO nice(1), nice(2), renice(2)