nice values outside the expected range ...

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Oct 25), Bill Moran said:
> 
> I didn't know this was possible:
>   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> 11348 root          1  -4 -100  5740K  5764K getblk 0   0:00  0.00% cdrecord
> 11346 root          1  -8 -104  5740K  5764K cbwait 0   0:00  0.00% cdrecord
> 
> I thought the allowed values for nice were -20 to 20.  Is this something
> new in the 6.x branch?

cdrecord sets at least one of its processes to a realtime priority, and
they're printed in the NICE field as those big numbers.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com