How to change "niceness" while perfoming top command?

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I know that I can change the niceness using this command:

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

But it would be much more convenient if I could do it while scanning the processes in top.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 07 '17 at 20:14

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Press r. That's it! :-)

Reference: The 9th item in 12 TOP Command Examples in Linux

answered Jan 07 '17 at 20:14

Positive Navid

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sudodus · Answer 2 · 2020-06-13T19:07:22.037

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htop gives you a user interface, that is easier to use. F7 and F8 are used to renice the high-lighted process. You need sudo permissions to decrease the nice value.

sudo add-apt-repository universe  # only for standard Ubuntu
sudo apt update
sudo apt install htop

htop

Or if you want to decrease the nice value (can be dangerous)

sudo -H htop

edited Jun 13 '20 at 19:07

answered Jan 07 '17 at 20:26

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I knew about htop. Thanks for your answer though. – Computer Lover Jan 07 '17 at 20:30
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I didn't know about htop! Thanks @sudodus! :-) – Positive Navid Jan 07 '17 at 21:16
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You are welcome, both of you :-) – sudodus Jan 07 '17 at 21:21

How to change "niceness" while perfoming top command?

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