.TH NICE 1

.SH NAME

nice \- invoke command with higher or lower scheduling priority

.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBnice\fP [\fB\-n\fP increment] \fIutility\fP [\fIargument\fP...]

.SH DESCRIPTION

The

.B nice

utility runs \fIutility\fP at a different scheduling priority than

the default. The nicer the process is to others (the higher the

increment), the less favourable the scheduling is. Super-users

can give a negative increment, meaning scheduling is more favourable

than the default.

.SH OPTIONS

.TP

.B \-n \fIincrement

the increment value sets how nice the invoked command will be. 0 is

the same priority as regular processes. 10 is the default.

The range is -20 to 20.

.SH SEE ALSO

getpriority(2), setpriority(2)

.SH AUTHOR

This

.B nice

utility was imported from FreeBSD. This manual page was written

Ben Gras <beng@few.vu.nl>.