[paularizer]

when you go to the activity monitor utility and click on the CPU tab, it shows you the percentages that are using up your cpu (i'm talking about the graph, not the text). I always wondered what is the "% Nice" indicated by blue. Can any one fill me in? What does it represent?

[WJMoore]

I think if you nice/renice a program its CPU usage is reported under % Nice

[paularizer]

thanks for the reply but I'm even more confused now. Maybe it's just one of those things that I don't need to know and the less I know about it the better.

[Curiosity]

Nice has something to do with changing the priority of a process.

[Big Mac]

In other words, with nice you can have OS X's scheduler provide more or less processor time to a given application than it would normally be given.