Note that with os.nice you can only *decrease* priority. For increasing priority you need to run; os.system("sudo renice -n %s %s" % (new_nice, os.getpid())) or simply set the nice level when you run python in the first place (you do also need sudo for this): sudo nice -n -15 python myScript.py
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