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nice — execute a utility with an altered scheduling priority

nice [-n increment] utility [argument ...]

nice runs utility at an altered scheduling priority. If an increment is given, it is used; otherwise an increment of 10 is assumed. The super-user can run utilities with priorities higher than normal by using a negative increment. The priority can be adjusted over a range of -20 (the highest) to 20 (the lowest). A priority of 19 or 20 will prevent a process from taking any cycles from others at nice 0 or better.

Available options:

increment
A positive or negative decimal integer used to modify the system scheduling priority of utility.

The nice utility exits with one of the following values:

1-125
An error occurred in the nice utility.
126
The utility was found but could not be invoked.
127
The utility could not be found.

Otherwise, the exit status of nice will be that of utility.

The historic -increment option has been deprecated but is still supported in this implementation.

csh(1), getpriority(2), setpriority(2), renice(8)

The nice utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (“POSIX.2”).

A nice utility appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

nice is built into csh(1) with a slightly different syntax than described here. The form ‘nice +10’ nices to positive nice, and ‘nice -10’ can be used by the super-user to give a process more of the processor.

June 6, 1993 NetBSD-9.2