Raise the nice value of the selected process.
Section: Priority and signals
Decrease priority
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Useful when background jobs should yield more CPU to foreground work.
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Send a signal to a process
Open the kill menu for the selected or tagged processes.
Use htop to locate a PID, then kill from shell
Classic shell companion flow.
Adjust nice value from the shell
Companion command when you prefer non-interactive changes.
Tag processes for group actions
Mark multiple processes, then send one action to all of them.