Fwd: What priority this app running?
Aryeh M. Friedman
aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 19:35:30 PST 2007
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Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:07:44 -0500 "C High" <freebsd at 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.
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Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems
http://www.flosoft-systems.com
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