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| author | Bernhard Marx <berny@bernhard-marx.de> | 2008-05-09 08:50:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-05-09 08:50:46 +0200 |
| commit | 0fe9fc4558194fa5c0083ecb7330ee1d28792777 (patch) | |
| tree | f21f350b3da6dfff3b21c38a301e90af92b7ed61 /doc | |
| parent | 15b0d75930187b5f9416160dd1b1df1a5fb567d8 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-0fe9fc4558194fa5c0083ecb7330ee1d28792777.tar.xz | |
doc: improve description of "niceness" values
* doc/coreutils.texi (nice invocation):
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index f42e73670..206f8dd82 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -13533,8 +13533,10 @@ If no arguments are given, @command{nice} prints the current niceness. Otherwise, @command{nice} runs the given @var{command} with its niceness adjusted. By default, its niceness is incremented by 10. -Nicenesses range at least from @minus{}20 (resulting in the most -favorable scheduling) through 19 (the least favorable). Some systems +Niceness values range at least from @minus{}20 (process has high priority +and gets more resources, thus slowing down other processes) through 19 +(process has lower priority and runs slowly itself, but has less impact +on the speed of other running processes). Some systems may have a wider range of nicenesses; conversely, other systems may enforce more restrictive limits. An attempt to set the niceness outside the supported range is treated as an attempt to use the |