Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:47:39 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Remko Lodder <remko@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r219003 - head/usr.bin/nice Message-ID: <201102241347.39267.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201102241613.p1OGDXpM047076@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201102241613.p1OGDXpM047076@svn.freebsd.org>
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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
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