2010/12/8 Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Once upon a time, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> said: >> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:57:21 -0600, >> Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Once upon a time, Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4@xxxxxxxxx> said: >> > > >> > > PRIORITY=-19 >> >> > Why do you (repeatedly) call it "insane"? That's kind of rude. The >> > process is running at a low priority level; do you have a problem with >> > that? >> >> Aren't negative priorities higher? I think this is running at the max >> priority, not the min one. > > Negative priorities are higher, but that's not what is being set. For > historical compatibilty, "nice" takes a numeric option as a nice value, > so "nice -n X" is the same as "nice -X" (it appears this behavior is not > documented). You can verify this: > > $ nice -n 19 ps -o nice,cmd > NI CMD > 19 ps -o nice,cmd > $ nice -19 ps -o nice,cmd > NI CMD > 19 ps -o nice,cmd Indeed, sorry for noice. > > -- > Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Best regards, Michal Sent from my iToaster -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
