Nice
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nice is a command on Unix-like systems that runs a process with an adjusted scheduling priority. The nice value ranges from -20 to 19, and the higher the value, the more the process yields the CPU, so it is used to keep background jobs from interfering with interactive work. A running process is changed with renice, and it is complemented by taskset for pinning CPU cores and systemd-run for cgroup-based resource limits.