Nice!

What to do when a process is running away with your resources, but you need the output, so you can’t just use

kill -9

First you need to use

top

to find the process ID (PID) of the process that you want to make more friendly. Then you need to re-nice that sucker! renice (the command) will alter the priority of running processes.

The format of the command is as follows:

renice priority [[-p ] pid ... ] [[-g ] pgrp ... ] [[-u ] user ... ] 

At its most basic you could use:

renice +1 9873

would change the priority of process ID 9873

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