The renice command
alter priority of running processes 1 example from the lessons of the IVski Linux Playground — try them in the terminal next to them.
Options in the examples
-n priority- Specify the absolute or relative (depending on environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT) scheduling priority to be used for the process…
-p, --pid- Interpret the succeeding arguments as process IDs (the default).
Examples
renice -n 10 -p 3412