From: Bernhard Marx Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 06:50:46 +0000 (+0200) Subject: doc: improve description of "niceness" values X-Git-Tag: v6.12~43 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0fe9fc4558194fa5c0083ecb7330ee1d28792777;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git doc: improve description of "niceness" values * doc/coreutils.texi (nice invocation): --- diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index f42e736702..206f8dd823 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