what is NICE on top

[danny_27]

Hi.
top command.

CPU LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS

what is "NICE" ?

Thanks for your help.

[harry d brown jr]

NICE is the nice amount (in the range -20 to 20),

http://www.tac.eu.org/cgi-bin/man-cgi?top+1

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harry

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

This is actually in the man page for 'top'

Nice value ranging from -20 to +20.

Have a look at the man pages for 'nice' and 'renice' for further explanation.

Michael

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

You can man nice and renice also.

more or less you are making a program nicer to user by running it at a lower priority.

Later,
Bill

[John Bolene]

nice refers to making the process have less priority for getting cpu resources in the same job class

[A. Clay Stephenson]

'Niceness' is one component of the process scheduling algorithm. A normal user can increase the niceness (i.e. giving up priority of a process in favor of other processes) but only a super-user can decrease the nice value which does the opposite.

[Tom Danzig]

subject: what is NICE on top

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[Anil Sedha]

Danny,

NICE command is used to set the priority of a process to run.

If you want some process to take lesser CPU and memory and it is not critical to produce results immediately, you should run it with the nice command.

The levels for nice as specified earlier are -20 to +20