Some services are more important than others, e.g., it is of paramount importance, that the imu measurements are always processed with as little jitter as possible. The nice value of a unix process helps the operating system to schedule the execution of the services accordingly.
with the current amount of services, niceness, specifically into the not-realtime services, such as dew, gps and status might be a good idea at least for single core systems.
Some services are more important than others, e.g., it is of paramount importance, that the imu measurements are always processed with as little jitter as possible. The nice value of a unix process helps the operating system to schedule the execution of the services accordingly.