From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 21 03:35:30 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9753D16A417 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:35:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 735F713C455 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:35:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.89.184]) by mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0JTD000RWRAMRAQ0@mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:35:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by flosoft.no-ip.biz (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id lBL3Z9CX028528; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:35:10 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:35:09 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" In-reply-to: <20071221143227.66258a57@meijome.net> To: Norberto Meijome Message-id: <476B346D.5000408@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 References: <676288.97766.qm@web57013.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <200712201854.51070.pieter@degoeje.nl> <653c2e600712201005x1e8e79a9la24bba073a52ede3@mail.gmail.com> <653c2e600712201007g44292abdq2d6ac290c3513a6@mail.gmail.com> <20071221143227.66258a57@meijome.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071217) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: What priority this app running? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:35:30 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:07:44 -0500 "C High" > wrote: > >> With nice, 20 is the lowest priority, 0 is the base, and -20 is >> the highest. > > that's right - it is because with nice you tell it 'how nice to > be'. when you ask a process to have a level 20 of niceness, it will > be VERY nice and the kernel will let other processes in front of > it. If you say, this process will have a negative value of > niceness, it isn't very nice at all ;) I think the kernel it self (this is based on 43BSD) has a niceness of -25. - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHazRtzIOMjAek4JIRAtAlAJ4xgwq25KBQ9GAJF4XDr2JbNlXLGgCfa+mP xr40CG6NrQFBl7GyyWvfbac= =WRMK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----