What do you understand by the term by nice value

What do you understand by the term by nice value?

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Nice value is the value which controls (decrements or increments) the priority of the process. This value which is returned by the nice() system call. The equation for employing nice value is:

Priority = (‘recent CPU usage’ or constant) + (base-priority) + (nice value)

Only the administrator can provide the nice value. The nice() system call is just works for the running process . Nice value of one process can not influence the nice value of the any other process.

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