Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 23:31:26 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nice question Message-ID: <19971213233126.62113@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213204729.14842B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>; from "Matthew D. Fuller" on Sat Dec 13 20:51:22 GMT 1997 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213204729.14842B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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In the last episode (Dec 13), Matthew D. Fuller said:
> 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.
>
> 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.
Another reason not to use csh :) Csh has a builtin 'nice' command with
different arguments than /usr/bin/nice. man csh and search for 'nice'.
-Dan Nelson
dnelson@emsphone.com
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