nice
(1)run a program with modified scheduling priority
Options
3-n--adjustmentNadd integer N to the niceness (default 10)
--helpdisplay this help and exit
--versionoutput version information and exit
DESCRIPTION
Run COMMAND with an adjusted niceness, which affects process scheduling. With no COMMAND, print the current niceness. Niceness values range from -20 (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable to the process).
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -n, --adjustment=N
- add integer N to the niceness (default 10)
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
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.
Exit status:
- 125
- if the nice command itself fails
- 126
- if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked
- 127
- if COMMAND cannot be found
- -
- the exit status of COMMAND otherwise
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