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nice \- set program priority
priority of the process is augmented by
Positive priorities get less
Priority 10 is recommended to users
who wish to execute long-running programs
without flak from the administration.
Negative increments are ignored except on behalf of
The priority is limited to the range
\-20 (most urgent) to 20 (least).
The priority of a process is
passed to a child process by
For a privileged process to return to normal priority
should be called successively with arguments
\-40 (goes to priority \-20 because of truncation),
then 0 (to maintain compatibility with previous versions
nice(1), fork(2), renice(8)