From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 21 03:33:01 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 9C6F616A419 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:33:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B9713C44B for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:33:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 12457 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2007 21:33:01 -0600 Received: from 124-170-40-102.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (124.170.40.102) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 20 Dec 2007 21:33:01 -0600 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:32:27 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071221143227.66258a57@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <653c2e600712201007g44292abdq2d6ac290c3513a6@mail.gmail.com> References: <676288.97766.qm@web57013.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <200712201854.51070.pieter@degoeje.nl> <653c2e600712201005x1e8e79a9la24bba073a52ede3@mail.gmail.com> <653c2e600712201007g44292abdq2d6ac290c3513a6@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.3; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 03:33:01 -0000 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 ;) _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome We've been wrong so many times before, why stop now? I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.