-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/8/13 6:48 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > It is not clear from the nice(1) man page, i.e. for /usr/bin/nice, > not a shell built-in nice, what is the highest increment value nice > will accept. > > It seems it is limited to 20. I tried > > $ /usr/bin/nice -n 100 portmaster -a > > But all processes spawned by the portmaster have the nice value of > only 20, as in: > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU > COMMAND 57586 root 1 52 20 13976K 4720K wait 0:00 > 0.39% sh 52729 root 1 40 20 13976K 4960K wait 0:02 > 0.00% sh 58239 root 1 92 20 35632K 8584K RUN 0:00 > 0.00% pkg 58237 root 1 52 20 9216K 1616K ppwait > 0:00 0.00% make > > The root shell priority was 0. > > So is 20 the upper increment limit? > > Thanks > > Anton
Yes, please check the setpriority man page: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=setpriority "The prio argument is a value in the range -20 to 20. The default priority is 0; lower priorities cause more favorable scheduling." Hope that helps, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/cpucycle/ - Follow you, follow me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHkTMwACgkQ0sRouByUApAzQACgvf8VJ8bO6Rld8UmOWRwNexmS 3FoAniQ0bdyu4DtNIXbKoP5ogasvFewk =/u88 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
