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1.1       root        1: .TH NICE 3C "1 April 1983"
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: nice \- set program priority
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B nice(incr)
                      7: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      8: .ft B
                      9: This interface is obsoleted by setpriority(2).
                     10: .ft R
                     11: .PP
                     12: The scheduling
                     13: priority of the process is augmented by
                     14: .IR incr .
                     15: Positive priorities get less
                     16: service than normal.
                     17: Priority 10 is recommended to users
                     18: who wish to execute long-running programs
                     19: without flak from the administration.
                     20: .PP
                     21: Negative increments are ignored except on behalf of 
                     22: the super-user.
                     23: The priority is limited to the range
                     24: \-20 (most urgent) to 20 (least).
                     25: .PP
                     26: The priority of a process is
                     27: passed to a child process by
                     28: .IR fork (2).
                     29: For a privileged process to return to normal priority
                     30: from an unknown state,
                     31: .I nice
                     32: should be called successively with arguments
                     33: \-40 (goes to priority \-20 because of truncation),
                     34: 20 (to get to 0),
                     35: then 0 (to maintain compatibility with previous versions
                     36: of this call).
                     37: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     38: nice(1), setpriority(2), fork(2), renice(8)

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