CPU & %Nice - What does it stand for?

[wxboss]

I've looked all over, but I can't find an explanation for what %Nice stands for when looking at the CPU activity. User, Sytem, Idle, I get, but %Nice has me a little baffled.

 

[jared_kipe]

I believe they are processes which will back out of the way if the recourses are needed. So they will only use CPU when you have the CPU to spare.

 

[wxboss]

That makes sense as I have a program running that does just that.

It's a pretty interesting feature now that I know what it's there for 🙂 .