From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 18:48:27 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7806D106567A; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:48:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C878FC1C; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:48:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EC78F46B29; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:48:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.10]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F00C28A01D; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:48:25 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Remko Lodder Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:47:39 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.4-CBSD-20110107; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201102241613.p1OGDXpM047076@svn.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201102241613.p1OGDXpM047076@svn.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102241347.39267.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:48:26 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.3 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=4.2 tests=BAYES_00,MAY_BE_FORGED, RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r219003 - head/usr.bin/nice X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:48:27 -0000 On Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:13:33 am Remko Lodder wrote: > Author: remko > Date: Thu Feb 24 16:13:33 2011 > New Revision: 219003 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219003 > > Log: > Add wording about the priority range and > mention what effect this has at certain > values. > > PR: 124469 > Obtained from: NetBSD nice.1 v1.14 > MFC after: 1 week > > Modified: > head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 > > Modified: head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 > ============================================================================== > --- head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 Thu Feb 24 14:56:12 2011 (r219002) > +++ head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 Thu Feb 24 16:13:33 2011 (r219003) > @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ > .\" @(#)nice.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 > .\" $FreeBSD$ > .\" > -.Dd June 6, 1993 > +.Dd February 24, 2011 > .Dt NICE 1 > .Os > .Sh NAME > @@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ value by the specified > .Ar increment , > or a default value of 10. > The lower the nice value of a process, the higher its scheduling priority. > +.Ar increment . > +The priority can be adjusted over a range of -20 (the higest) to 20 (the > +lowest). > +A priority of 19 or 20 will prevent a process from taking any cycles from > +others at nice 0 or better. Are you sure that this statement applies to both ULE and 4BSD? The two schedulers treat nice values a bit differently. -- John Baldwin