Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:32:27 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: What priority this app running? Message-ID: <20071221143227.66258a57@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <653c2e600712201007g44292abdq2d6ac290c3513a6@mail.gmail.com> References: <676288.97766.qm@web57013.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <200712201854.51070.pieter@degoeje.nl> <653c2e600712201005x1e8e79a9la24bba073a52ede3@mail.gmail.com> <653c2e600712201007g44292abdq2d6ac290c3513a6@mail.gmail.com>
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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 ;)
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