From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 15: 7:24 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 1900437B409 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:07:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA62107; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:07:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:07:19 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: top "nice" CPU usage % Message-ID: <20010818180719.A62086@blackhelicopters.org> References: <106465644@toto.iv> <15230.58619.22982.65728@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <15230.58619.22982.65728@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 04:58:19PM -0500 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 On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 04:58:19PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > I don't know of a description, but you've nailed it. This reports the > cumulative cpu time of processes running with a nice > 0. For the > user, nice > 0 gets less CPU time than processes with nice of 0. Nice > < 0 can only be set by root. Thanks. That seemed to be the obvious interpretation, but it didn't say so anywhere. And we all know where "obvious" gets us. So, it only reports processes where nice is less than zero, or processes where the user has decided to be nice? Hmmm... seems it would be more useful to report processes set to be more "hungry". Ah, well, I'm sure patches would be welcome. :) Thanks, everyone! ==ml -- 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