From: Brian Hall 

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).

Try "man nice" or "apropos nice".

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

Brian

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