From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 19 14:54: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from femail24.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail24.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE38037B401; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:54:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx ([24.2.39.156]) by femail24.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011019215404.PKC17681.femail24.sdc1.sfba.home.com@laptop.baldwin.cx>; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:54:04 -0700 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:53:54 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: John Baldwin Subject: RE: Erm, who broke nice? Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19-Oct-01 John Baldwin wrote: > I know that some people are complaining about the performance of current and > all, but breaking nice so that we can't make processes run slower is just > going > too far. :) > >> nice -20 buildworld > setpriority: Permission denied. > > Any ideas? Idea #1: PEBKAC due to me using tcsh and it having an arguably more intuitive but nonetheless gratuitously incompatible builtin nice command. nice +20 buildworld worked fine. *sigh* -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message