diff --git a/docs/books/admin_guide/08-process.md b/docs/books/admin_guide/08-process.md index 7fe971db70..0b7181d868 100644 --- a/docs/books/admin_guide/08-process.md +++ b/docs/books/admin_guide/08-process.md @@ -165,9 +165,11 @@ When a parent process dies, their children are said to be orphans. They are then ### The priority of a process -The processor works in time sharing, with each process occupying a quantity of processor time. +GNU/Linux belongs to the family of time-sharing operating systems. Processors work in a time-sharing manner, and each process takes up some processor time. Processes are classified by priority: -The processes are classified by priority, whose value varies from **-20** (the highest priority) to **+19** (the lowest priority). +* Real-time process: the process with priority of **0-99** is scheduled by real-time scheduling algorithm. +* Ordinary processes: processes with dynamic priorities of **100-139** are scheduled using a fully fair scheduling algorithm. +* Nice value: a parameter used to adjust the priority of an ordinary process. The range is **-20-19**. The default priority of a process is **0**.