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+# Reniced
+
+Helper utility intended to run as a service or as background process (say in tmux) that can make system more respositive
+under certain load.
+
+## Why it was made
+
+In general case os can handle load well fairly share resources among processes. But in some cases it make it poorly.
+As an exanple it can be ill-minded pseudo-security stuff like antiviruses or mediaanalysers that searches forbidden
+content on your mac (due to gov.polices that apple have to accept). Or it can be backup that crawls in background.
+
+To help resolve such situation this utility was made. Some malicious processes can be renice to lower nicelevels (say,
+19) and for some good processes nicelevel can be rised to higher values(-19 if reniced run as superuser or 0 if as
+normal).
+
+In some critical cases process can be killed (if you want to know more about it see "man kill" in terminal).
+
+## How to build, configure, run it
+
+You will need Go lang 1.21 or newer, gnu make, terminal and possibly internets to build this utility.
+
+To build reniced just type in src dir
+
+```bash
+make
+```
+
+this will produce binary named "reniced".
+
+Copy to your home directory .reniced.yaml.example as .reniced.yaml and edit it to suit your needs. After you done, you
+can run utility as:
+
+```bash
+./reniced
+```
+
+if you have no access to superuser or
+
+```bash
+sudo ./reniced
+```
+
+if you can sudo. Thats it.
+
+## Special "thanks"
+
+To security assholes that disrupt workflows and make this world worse.