man nice says it's for running a command with a specified scheduling priority.
nice [OPTION]... [COMMAND... [ARG]..] On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, justin bengtson wrote: > is there a way to re-nice a command besides top? better yet, is there a way to > set the nice value of a command at the moment of execution (so i don't have to > use top)? > > ===== > Justin Bengtson @euglug=(v+ e- eug++ bsd? gnu++ s++) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "i called some kid 'b' the other day. it's the price > you pay for living hip-hop every day of your life." > Jerry (from the Point Blank Rangers) > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
