.TH RENICE 2 .UC .SH NAME renice \- set program priority .SH SYNOPSIS .B renice(pid, nice) .SH DESCRIPTION .I Renice sets the scheduling priority of the process with id .I pid to .IR nice . The super-user may .I renice any process to any value from \-127 to 127. Other users may only increase the nice value of one of their own processes. .SH ERRORS .I Renice will fail and the process's scheduling priority will be unaltered if: .TP 20 [EPERM] The named process's effective user ID is not the same as the calling process and the process's effective user ID is not the super-user. .TP 20 [ESRCH] The named process does not exist. .SH SEE ALSO nice(1), renice(1), nice(2) .SH ASSEMBLER .nf (local = 58., renice = 17.) .B sys local; 9f \&. . . .B \&.data .B 9: sys renice; pid; nice .fi