nice - man page
NICE(1) User Commands NICE(1)
NAME
nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
SYNOPSIS
nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]
DESCRIPTION
Run COMMAND with an adjusted niceness, which affects process scheduling. With no COMMAND, print the current niceness. Nicenesses range from -20
(most favorable scheduling) to 19 (least favorable).
-n, --adjustment=N
add integer N to the niceness (default 10)
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of nice, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell’s documenta?
tion for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to .
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for nice is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and nice programs are properly installed at your site, the com?
mand
info nice
should give you access to the complete manual.
nice 5.97 January 2007 NICE(1)
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