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nice — Execute a program with a custom scheduling priority (niceness). Niceness values range from -20 (the

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Problem

How to use the nice command: Execute a program with a custom scheduling priority (niceness). Niceness values range from -20 (the highest priority) to 19 (the lowest). Note: Some modern schedulers ignore niceness or limit its effects inside autogroups. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/nice-invocation.html>.

Solution

nice — Execute a program with a custom scheduling priority (niceness). Niceness values range from -20 (the highest priority) to 19 (the lowest). Note: Some modern schedulers ignore niceness or limit its effects inside autogroups. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/nice-invocation.html>.

Print the current niceness value:
nice


Increment the current niceness value by 10:
nice nice


Launch a program with lowered priority:
nice -{{niceness_value}} {{command}}


Launch a program with heightened priority:
sudo nice --{{niceness_value}} {{command}}


Define the priority with an explicit option:
nice {{[-n|--adjustment]}} {{niceness_value}} {{command}}

Code Snippets

Print the current niceness value

nice

Increment the current niceness value by 10

nice nice

Launch a program with lowered priority

nice -{{niceness_value}} {{command}}

Launch a program with heightened priority

sudo nice --{{niceness_value}} {{command}}

Define the priority with an explicit option

nice {{[-n|--adjustment]}} {{niceness_value}} {{command}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/nice

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