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. 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
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
SEE ALSO
nice(2), renice(1)
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nice invocation'
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