Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 20:51:22 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: nice question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213204729.14842B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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this may be a bug in nice, a bug in the manpage, or a bug in my
understanding here.
her's my understanding: nice sets a priority between -20 and 20 (I'm
assuming running as root). 20 is the lowest priority, 0 is the highest
normal priority.
According to the man page, to nice something to a positive number you do
this:
nice -<number> command.
to nice to a negative number, you do this:
nice --<number> command
Here's what I get:
{~} root@mortis: %nice -20 top
and I find this in the output:
21551 root 51 -20 640K 856K RUN 0:00 4.80% 0.46% top
^^^^
Note that this is at -20, not +20.
Then, if I do this:
{~} root@mortis: %nice --20 top
nice: Badly formed number.
So, I guess the question is, how do I nice something to +20?
I can't nice below -20, so it's not like it's shifted to -40 - 0.
HELP!!
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