On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    WAIT     TIME    CPU COMMAND

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> > > 29174 clock     79   10   33M   15M run      -        0:00  4.25% rt

> > >

> > > What is the "nice" state? I know what userspace, system, interrupt handler

> > > and idle task is, but nice?

> > 

> >From the replies I got (none of which actually answered my question) it looks

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> like the "nice" state might be a state where the nice value != 0. Or less than

> zero would also make sense. But it could be also that OpenBSD has the nice()

> function like some other operating systems for giving up the scheduled time

> back to the system and then the nice state might show amount of time

> given up this way. So - what is the nice state printout actually?

From my ancient answer to you, and I quote:
"Top's  48.7% nice here is telling you that the CPU is spending 48.7%

of its time executing tasks that are "niced".  If this includes

processes with negative "nice" values, I do not know; you could

peruse the kernel source or conduct an experiment to discover that,

if you care to."
I also referred you to two or three relevant man pages.
If that doesn't answer your trolling, disengenuous, never-read-a-manpage,

low-grade, losing, pre/sub-newbie question, then answering your questions

is impossible.
You are not worth further effort, kid.