From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Brian Hall"  wrote in message
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> Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
>
> > Case in point: there is a pretty good system monitor in KDE (KDE System
> > Guard), which has a cpu load display. And there's something
called "Nice
> > load". So what the heck is this "Nice" I ask, and
like any good geek I
go to
> > google and try: "What is nice in linux".
> >
> > Yeah right, ha ha. Mildly amusing, but hardly helpful.
> >
> > So anyone care to give me a very brief hint as to what it actually is,
this
> > "Nice" that is taking a tiny fraction of my cpu. Thank you.
>
> Nice is a command for adjusting the priority of processes. Lowering the
> priority of one process makes it "nicer" to the other processes.
>
> The nice command can also raise the priority of a process (if you have
> the authority, root or su).
>

Thanks. So, why does it use the cpu all the time, is it like part of the
task scheduler or something like that?


> Try "man nice" or "apropos nice".

I did, but it referred to printing system, so I didn't think it was
correct. I'll see again tomorrow.


> The apropos command is good for seeing which commands might
> do something  you need.

I knew about man and info, but not apropos. Will give it a go, thanks.


Antti Kurenniemi

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