Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 20:51:22 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: nice question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213204729.14842B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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this may be a bug in nice, a bug in the manpage, or a bug in my understanding here. her's my understanding: nice sets a priority between -20 and 20 (I'm assuming running as root). 20 is the lowest priority, 0 is the highest normal priority. According to the man page, to nice something to a positive number you do this: nice -<number> command. to nice to a negative number, you do this: nice --<number> command Here's what I get: {~} root@mortis: %nice -20 top and I find this in the output: 21551 root 51 -20 640K 856K RUN 0:00 4.80% 0.46% top ^^^^ Note that this is at -20, not +20. Then, if I do this: {~} root@mortis: %nice --20 top nice: Badly formed number. So, I guess the question is, how do I nice something to +20? I can't nice below -20, so it's not like it's shifted to -40 - 0. HELP!! *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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