January 15, 2026
Nice - The Priority Scheduling Modification
Understanding Linux nice values and priority scheduling for process management.
From documentation:
nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
The flags:
-n, --adjustment=N
The command goes like:
nice -n 19 dms run --session
This starts my DMS shell in least priority. It just means Linux will give any process higher priority. In consequence maybe it will update less since it’s my bar.
Values of n:
-20 (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable to the process).