From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 9:26: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F3FA37B40B for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:26:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA61475 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:26:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:26:04 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: top "nice" CPU usage % Message-ID: <20010818122604.A61443@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've been through man pages, web sites, and am slowly going nuts. top(1) includes percentages for the four "processor states"; user, nice, system, and idle. I know what three of them are, but what is the "nice" state? I would guess ( and probably be wrong ) that it has something to do with process nice/renice. Can anyone point me to a description? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message