NICE
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2010
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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 documentation
for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report nice bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report nice translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
nice(2)
The full documentation for
nice
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
nice
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils 'nice invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
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