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diff --git a/usr.bin/renice/renice.8 b/usr.bin/renice/renice.8 deleted file mode 100644 index 5a260a8..0000000 --- a/usr.bin/renice/renice.8 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,131 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 -.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. -.\" -.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without -.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions -.\" are met: -.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. -.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the -.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. -.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software -.\" must display the following acknowledgement: -.\" This product includes software developed by the University of -.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. -.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors -.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software -.\" without specific prior written permission. -.\" -.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND -.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE -.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE -.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE -.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL -.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS -.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) -.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT -.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY -.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF -.\" SUCH DAMAGE. -.\" -.\" @(#)renice.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93 -.\" -.Dd June 9, 1993 -.Dt RENICE 8 -.Os BSD 4 -.Sh NAME -.Nm renice -.Nd alter priority of running processes -.Sh SYNOPSIS -.Nm renice -.Ar priority -.Oo -.Op Fl p -.Ar pid ... -.Oc -.Oo -.Op Fl g -.Ar pgrp ... -.Oc -.Oo -.Op Fl u -.Ar user ... -.Oc -.Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Renice -alters the -scheduling priority of one or more running processes. -The following -.Ar who -parameters are interpreted as process ID's, process group -ID's, or user names. -.Nm Renice Ns 'ing -a process group causes all processes in the process group -to have their scheduling priority altered. -.Nm Renice Ns 'ing -a user causes all processes owned by the user to have -their scheduling priority altered. -By default, the processes to be affected are specified by -their process ID's. -.Pp -Options supported by -.Nm renice : -.Bl -tag -width Ds -.It Fl g -Force -.Ar who -parameters to be interpreted as process group ID's. -.It Fl u -Force the -.Ar who -parameters to be interpreted as user names. -.It Fl p -Resets the -.Ar who -interpretation to be (the default) process ID's. -.El -.Pp -For example, -.Bd -literal -offset -renice +1 987 -u daemon root -p 32 -.Ed -.Pp -would change the priority of process ID's 987 and 32, and -all processes owned by users daemon and root. -.Pp -Users other than the super-user may only alter the priority of -processes they own, -and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value'' -within the range 0 to -.Dv PRIO_MAX -(20). -(This prevents overriding administrative fiats.) -The super-user -may alter the priority of any process -and set the priority to any value in the range -.Dv PRIO_MIN -(\-20) -to -.Dv PRIO_MAX . -Useful priorities are: -20 (the affected processes will run only when nothing else -in the system wants to), -0 (the ``base'' scheduling priority), -anything negative (to make things go very fast). -.Sh FILES -.Bl -tag -width /etc/passwd -compact -.It Pa /etc/passwd -to map user names to user ID's -.El -.Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr getpriority 2 , -.Xr setpriority 2 -.Sh BUGS -Non super-users can not increase scheduling priorities of their own processes, -even if they were the ones that decreased the priorities in the first place. -.Sh HISTORY -The -.Nm -command appeared in -.Bx 4.0 . |