sched.7: Mention RLIMIT_NICE in the discussion of the nice value

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man7/sched.7 b/man7/sched.7
index 8f00441623d49aec7997bc8babea1f58e4827443..cae43fe134fe1da89308ea3213fd2df22b4f78e4 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/sched.7
+++ b/man7/sched.7
@@ -404,6 +404,13 @@ to a process whenever there is any other
 higher priority load on the system,
 and makes high nice values (\-20) deliver most of the CPU to applications
 that require it (e.g., some audio applications).
+
+On Linux, the
+.BR RLIMIT_NICE
+resource limit can be used to define a limit to which
+an unprivileged process's nice value can be raised; see
+.BR setrlimit (2)
+for details.
 .\"
 .SS SCHED_BATCH: Scheduling batch processes
 (Since Linux 2.6.16.)