Solaris™ 7 Reference

nice — Invoke a Command with an Altered Scheduling Priority

Synopsis

/usr/bin/nice [-increment | -n increment] command [argument...] 
/usr/xpg4/bin/nice [-increment | -n increment] 
  command [argument...] 

csh Built-in

nice [-increment | +increment][command] 

Description

Use the nice command to raise or lower the priority of a command or a process. When you use the nice command without an argument, the default is to increase the nice number by ten units, thus lowering the priority of the process.

The priocntl(1) command is a more general interface to scheduler functions.

The invoking process (generally, the user's shell) must be in a scheduling class that supports nice.

If you use the C shell (see csh(1)), you must specify the full path of ...