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From man page:<br />

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%nice<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Show the percentage of CPU utilization that occurred while &nbsp;exe-<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; cuting at the user level with nice priority.<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;%system
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Basically you can do nice or renice to change priority of your process to a lower priority in order to give other processes preference over your process.<br />
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Some more information for you.<br />
<a href="http://www.nixtutor.com/linux/changing-priority-on-linux-processes/" rel="ugc">http://www.nixtutor.com/linux/changing-priority-on-linux-processes/</a>
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From man page:


> %nice
>               Show the percentage of CPU utilization that occurred while  exe-
>               cuting at the user level with nice priority.
>        %system


Basically you can do nice or renice to change priority of your process to a lower priority in order to give other processes preference over your process.

Some more information for you.
http://www.nixtutor.com/linux/changing-priority-on-linux-processes/ [http://www.nixtutor.com/linux/changing-priority-on-linux-processes/]

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mpstat - &nbsp;%nice is the percentage of CPU utilization that occurred while executing at the user level with nice priority. &nbsp;<br />
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(a) when you issue a command with &quot;nice +7 rpm -ivh ***.rpm&quot; &nbsp;it will increment the priority of rpm installation by 7 and there by may increase the CPU utilization for the rpm command.<br />
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based on you prioritizing a process with nice command the %CPU utilization will change in mpstat.
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mpstat -  %nice is the percentage of CPU utilization that occurred while executing at the user level with nice priority.  

(a) when you issue a command with "nice +7 rpm -ivh ***.rpm"  it will increment the priority of rpm installation by 7 and there by may increase the CPU utilization for the rpm command.

based on you prioritizing a process with nice command the %CPU utilization will change in mpstat.

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Regarding mpstat<br />
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what is nice
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Linux CPU nice

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