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| author | Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-02-24 16:13:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-02-24 16:13:33 +0000 |
| commit | 71e4f6595b1863da641498d98cd7139b2dcd6aee (patch) | |
| tree | cc12314c979d492272b9cb99d9d05996a5709077 /usr.bin/nice | |
| parent | 124ddf3e833012ee8690892615155a7c5fcc6ae8 (diff) | |
| download | src-test-71e4f6595b1863da641498d98cd7139b2dcd6aee.tar.gz src-test-71e4f6595b1863da641498d98cd7139b2dcd6aee.zip | |
Add wording about the priority range and
mention what effect this has at certain
values.
PR: 124469
Obtained from: NetBSD nice.1 v1.14
MFC after: 1 week
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=219003
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/nice')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/nice/nice.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 b/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 index 5f0855131147d..b634f7a1eeefa 100644 --- a/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 +++ b/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)nice.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 6, 1993 +.Dd February 24, 2011 .Dt NICE 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ value by the specified .Ar increment , or a default value of 10. The lower the nice value of a process, the higher its scheduling priority. +.Ar increment . +The priority can be adjusted over a range of -20 (the higest) 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. .Pp The superuser may specify a negative increment in order to run a utility with a higher scheduling priority. @@ -107,6 +112,7 @@ option has been deprecated but is still supported. .Xr rtprio 1 , .Xr getpriority 2 , .Xr setpriority 2 , +.Xr nice 3, .Xr renice 8 .Sh STANDARDS The |