Influence scheduling priority with nice and renice

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 29, 2006 8:20 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, and Trent R. Hein
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The "niceness" of a process is a numeric hint to the kernel about how the process should be treated in relation to other processes contending for the CPU. The strange name is derived from the fact that it determines how nice you are going to be to other users of the system. A high nice value means a low priority for your process: you are going to be nice. A low or negative value means high priority: you are not very nice. The range of allowable niceness values is -20 to +19.

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