From 50e12810b35562c89fd526a11a35c5fbc0d346f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 16:45:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] sched.7: Mention RLIMIT_NICE in the discussion of the nice value Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/sched.7 | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/man7/sched.7 b/man7/sched.7 index 8f0044162..cae43fe13 100644 --- a/man7/sched.7 +++ b/man7/sched.7 @@ -404,6 +404,13 @@ to a process whenever there is any other higher priority load on the system, and makes high nice values (\-20) deliver most of the CPU to applications that require it (e.g., some audio applications). + +On Linux, the +.BR RLIMIT_NICE +resource limit can be used to define a limit to which +an unprivileged process's nice value can be raised; see +.BR setrlimit (2) +for details. .\" .SS SCHED_BATCH: Scheduling batch processes (Since Linux 2.6.16.)