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Author: remko
Date: Thu Feb 24 16:13:33 2011
New Revision: 219003
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219003

Log:
  Add wording about the priority range and
  mention what effect this has at certain
  values.
  
  PR:		124469
  Obtained from:	NetBSD nice.1 v1.14
  MFC after:	1 week

Modified:
  head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1

Modified: head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1	Thu Feb 24 14:56:12 2011	(r219002)
+++ head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1	Thu Feb 24 16:13:33 2011	(r219003)
@@ -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 
 .Xr rtprio 1 ,
 .Xr getpriority 2 ,
 .Xr setpriority 2 ,
+.Xr nice 3,
 .Xr renice 8
 .Sh STANDARDS
 The