On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIME CPU COMMAND > > > 29174 clock 79 10 33M 15M run - 0:00 4.25% rt > > > > > > What is the "nice" state? I know what userspace, system, interrupt handler > > > and idle task is, but nice? > >
> >From the replies I got (none of which actually answered my question) it looks > like the "nice" state might be a state where the nice value != 0. Or less than > zero would also make sense. But it could be also that OpenBSD has the nice() > function like some other operating systems for giving up the scheduled time > back to the system and then the nice state might show amount of time > given up this way. So - what is the nice state printout actually? >From my ancient answer to you, and I quote: "Top's 48.7% nice here is telling you that the CPU is spending 48.7% of its time executing tasks that are "niced". If this includes processes with negative "nice" values, I do not know; you could peruse the kernel source or conduct an experiment to discover that, if you care to." I also referred you to two or three relevant man pages. If that doesn't answer your trolling, disengenuous, never-read-a-manpage, low-grade, losing, pre/sub-newbie question, then answering your questions is impossible. You are not worth further effort, kid.
