nicepriority
Nicepriority is a concept in computer scheduling describing a method to manage the allocation of CPU time by combining the traditional niceness model with an additional priority dimension. It is intended to give system administrators and schedulers finer control over task responsiveness while preserving overall fairness.
In Unix-like systems, the niceness value (nice) ranges from -20 to 19 and biases the scheduler toward
Implementation approaches vary. Some proposals model the scheduler with a two-axis space: priority class (e.g., low,
Applications include desktop responsiveness, server workloads, and containerized environments where resource governance matters. Administrators could set
Critics note that additional scheduling dimensions increase complexity and risk of misconfiguration. Proper safeguards, such as
See also: CPU scheduling, process priority, niceness, real-time scheduling, cgroups.