How do you change process priority?

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How do you change process priority?

I was playing Fortnite, and it was lagging a lot. I headed over to Activity Monitor to change the priority but I couldn't find how to do it. I already tried going on Activity Monitor and tried downloading another app called atMonitor but it didn't work either.

Please give me some info on how to change process priority on my Mac.

My Product

iMac 21.5-inch, Late 2015

My Specs

Operating System

macOS 10.13.4

Processor

1.6 GHz Intel Core i5

Memory

8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3

Graphics

Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB

Storage

I TB SATA Disk

Mac OS X (10.7.5), MacOS High Seirra

Posted on May 23, 2018 10:05 AM

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May 23, 2018 10:51 AM in response to DSADDSFFSDFSSDDF

Try at your own risk...

in Terminal, you can alter the priority level with the "renice" command.

For example:

sudo renice -20 12345

will give the maximum priority to the process number 12345.

(as usual with sudo, you have to be running from an admin account; you will be asked for your password, and while typing it nothing will be displayed; press entered when finished typing the password).

I have not used renice in a mac in years and have no idea if it will work. It still appears in the manual.

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