renice
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
re- + nice. See nice (“to run a process with a specified priority”).
Verb[edit]
renice (third-person singular simple present renices, present participle renicing, simple past and past participle reniced)
- (transitive, computing, Unix) To change (usually to lower) the priority of a process that is already running.