> a previous discussion that said 4 was the default...I don't see
quoted text
> why. nice uses +10 by default on all linux distro...So I suspect
> that if Mike just used "nice lame" instead of "nice +5 lame", he
> would have got what he wanted.

tcsh, and probably csh, has a builtin 'nice' with default +4.  So

  tcsh% nice ps -l

will show a process with nice +4.  If you tell it not to use the builtin,

  tcsh% \nice ps -l

then it uses /usr/bin/nice and you get +10.  bash doesn't have a nice
builtin, so it always uses /usr/bin/nice and you get +10 by default.

-Sanjoy

`Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)
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