Changing the default nice value for a user or group

1 · Benjamin Cane · Sept. 30, 2013, 2:53 p.m.
Recently I coveredhow to increase and decrease the CPU priority of processes using nice and renice. Today I am going to cover how to change the default niceness value for a user or group. Why change the default CPU priority value? Before explaining how to change the default niceness value, let's cover why this could be useful. Scenario #1 You have a system that has thousands of users that log in via SSH and could potentially run CPU intensive tasks....