Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:35:09 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: What priority this app running? Message-ID: <476B346D.5000408@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071221143227.66258a57@meijome.net> References: <676288.97766.qm@web57013.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <200712201854.51070.pieter@degoeje.nl> <653c2e600712201005x1e8e79a9la24bba073a52ede3@mail.gmail.com> <653c2e600712201007g44292abdq2d6ac290c3513a6@mail.gmail.com> <20071221143227.66258a57@meijome.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:07:44 -0500 "C High" <freebsd@fwd.tch3.com> > wrote: > >> With nice, 20 is the lowest priority, 0 is the base, and -20 is >> the highest. > > that's right - it is because with nice you tell it 'how nice to > be'. when you ask a process to have a level 20 of niceness, it will > be VERY nice and the kernel will let other processes in front of > it. If you say, this process will have a negative value of > niceness, it isn't very nice at all ;) I think the kernel it self (this is based on 43BSD) has a niceness of -25. - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHazRtzIOMjAek4JIRAtAlAJ4xgwq25KBQ9GAJF4XDr2JbNlXLGgCfa+mP xr40CG6NrQFBl7GyyWvfbac= =WRMK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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