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30 .\" @(#)nice.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
37 .Nd execute a utility with an altered scheduling priority
47 at an altered scheduling priority.
50 is given, it is used; otherwise
51 an increment of 10 is assumed.
52 The super-user can run utilities with priorities higher than normal by using
55 The priority can be adjusted over a
56 range of -20 (the highest) to 20 (the lowest).
57 A priority of 19 or 20
58 will prevent a process from taking any cycles from others at nice 0 or
62 .Bl -tag -width indent
64 A positive or negative decimal integer used to modify the system scheduling
71 utility exits with one of the following values:
72 .Bl -tag -width indent
74 An error occurred in the
80 was found but could not be invoked.
87 Otherwise, the exit status of
94 option has been deprecated but is still supported in this implementation.
114 with a slightly different syntax than described here.
117 nices to positive nice, and
120 by the super-user to give a process more of the processor.