[Chapter 39] 39.10 A nice Gotcha
Author: Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly & Mike Loukides
Date: 1998-08-04T21:50:22Z

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| Chapter 39 Time and Performance |

## 39.10 A nice Gotcha

> NOTE: It's NOT a good idea to nice a foreground job (12.1). If the system gets busy, your terminal could "freeze" waiting to get enough CPU time to do something. You may not even be able to kill (38.9) a nice'd job on a very busy system because the CPU may never give the process enough CPU time to recognize the signal waiting for it! And, of course, don't nice an interactive program like a text editor unless you like to wait... `:-)`

- JP

39.9 Know When to Be "nice" to OTher Users...and When Not to |  | 39.11 Changing a Job's Priority Under BSD UNIX