Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> ...
> What is the "nice" state? I know what userspace, system, interrupt handler
> and idle task is, but nice? ...
It's an adjustment to scheduling priority:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nice
You can use nice to give a process a higher or lower priority than other
processes when you start the process. Or you can use renice to do the
same after the program is already started.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=renice
Often it's used to slow down a CPU hog running in the background.
Regards
-Lars
