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Add wording about the priority range and

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mention what effect this has at certain
values.

PR:		124469
Obtained from:	NetBSD nice.1 v1.14
MFC after:	1 week
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Remko Lodder 2011-02-24 16:13:33 +00:00
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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)nice.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd June 6, 1993
.Dd February 24, 2011
.Dt NICE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ value by the specified
.Ar increment ,
or a default value of 10.
The lower the nice value of a process, the higher its scheduling priority.
.Ar increment .
The priority can be adjusted over a range of -20 (the higest) 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
The superuser may specify a negative increment in order to run a utility
with a higher scheduling priority.
@ -107,6 +112,7 @@ option has been deprecated but is still supported.
.Xr rtprio 1 ,
.Xr getpriority 2 ,
.Xr setpriority 2 ,
.Xr nice 3,
.Xr renice 8
.Sh STANDARDS
The