Author: remko Date: Thu Feb 24 16:13:33 2011 New Revision: 219003 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219003
Log: Add wording about the priority range and mention what effect this has at certain values. PR: 124469 Obtained from: NetBSD nice.1 v1.14 MFC after: 1 week Modified: head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 Modified: head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 ============================================================================== --- head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 Thu Feb 24 14:56:12 2011 (r219002) +++ head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 Thu Feb 24 16:13:33 2011 (r219003) @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)nice.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 6, 1993 +.Dd February 24, 2011 .Dt NICE 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ value by the specified .Ar increment , or a default value of 10. The lower the nice value of a process, the higher its scheduling priority. +.Ar increment . +The priority can be adjusted over a range of -20 (the higest) to 20 (the +lowest). +A priority of 19 or 20 will prevent a process from taking any cycles from +others at nice 0 or better. .Pp The superuser may specify a negative increment in order to run a utility with a higher scheduling priority. @@ -107,6 +112,7 @@ option has been deprecated but is still .Xr rtprio 1 , .Xr getpriority 2 , .Xr setpriority 2 , +.Xr nice 3, .Xr renice 8 .Sh STANDARDS The _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
