.TH NICE 1 .SH NAME nice \- invoke command with higher or lower scheduling priority .SH SYNOPSIS \fBnice\fP [\fB\-n\fP increment] \fIutility\fP [\fIargument\fP...] .SH DESCRIPTION The .B nice utility runs \fIutility\fP at a different scheduling priority than the default. The nicer the process is to others (the higher the increment), the less favourable the scheduling is. Super-users can give a negative increment, meaning scheduling is more favourable than the default. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-n \fIincrement the increment value sets how nice the invoked command will be. 0 is the same priority as regular processes. 10 is the default. The range is -20 to 20. .SH SEE ALSO getpriority(2), setpriority(2) .SH AUTHOR This .B nice utility was imported from FreeBSD. This manual page was written Ben Gras .