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+.\"	$NetBSD: nice.1,v 1.15 2012/03/22 07:58:19 wiz Exp $
+.\"
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+.\"	@(#)nice.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
+.\"
+.Dd June 6, 1993
+.Dt NICE 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm nice
+.Nd execute a utility with an altered scheduling priority
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm
+.Op Fl n Ar increment
+.Ar utility
+.Op Ar argument ...
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+runs
+.Ar utility
+at an altered scheduling priority.
+If an
+.Ar increment
+is given, it is used; otherwise
+an increment of 10 is assumed.
+The super-user can run utilities with priorities higher than normal by using
+a negative
+.Ar increment .
+The priority can be adjusted over a
+range of -20 (the highest) to 20 (the lowest).
+A priority of 19 or 20
+will prevent a process from taking any cycles from others at nice 0 or
+better.
+.Pp
+Available options:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Fl n Ar increment
+A positive or negative decimal integer used to modify the system scheduling
+priority of
+.Ar utility .
+.El
+.Sh EXIT STATUS
+The
+.Nm
+utility exits with one of the following values:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It 1-125
+An error occurred in the
+.Nm
+utility.
+.It 126
+The
+.Ar utility
+was found but could not be invoked.
+.It 127
+The
+.Ar utility
+could not be found.
+.El
+.Pp
+Otherwise, the exit status of
+.Nm
+will be that of
+.Ar utility .
+.Sh COMPATIBILITY
+The historic
+.Fl Ns Ar increment
+option has been deprecated but is still supported in this implementation.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr csh 1 ,
+.Xr getpriority 2 ,
+.Xr setpriority 2 ,
+.Xr renice 8
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Nm
+utility conforms to
+.St -p1003.2-92 .
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Nm
+utility appeared in
+.At v6 .
+.Sh BUGS
+.Nm
+is built into
+.Xr csh 1
+with a slightly different syntax than described here.
+The form
+.Ql nice +10
+nices to positive nice, and
+.Ql nice \-10
+can be used
+by the super-user to give a process more of the processor.