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From: Lars Noodén <lars@...>
To: Karel Kulhavy <clock@...>
Cc: OpenBSD <misc@...>
Subject: Re: What is the "nice" process state?
Date: Saturday, October 27, 2007 - 10:26 am

Karel Kulhavy wrote:


It's an adjustment to scheduling priority:


	http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nice


You can use nice to give a process a higher or lower priority than other

processes when you start the process.  Or you can use renice to do the

same after the program is already started.


	http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=renice


Often it's used to slow down a CPU hog running in the background.


Regards

-Lars
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What is the "nice" process state?, Karel Kulhavy, (Sat Oct 27, 7:57 am)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Darrin Chandler, (Sat Oct 27, 12:35 pm)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Karel Kulhavy, (Sat Nov 3, 6:45 am)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Woodchuck, (Sat Nov 3, 9:22 am)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Jason McIntyre, (Sat Nov 3, 9:15 am)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Karel Kulhavy, (Sat Nov 3, 12:14 pm)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Jason McIntyre, (Sat Nov 3, 1:52 pm)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Douglas A. Tutty, (Sat Nov 3, 8:55 am)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Karel Kulhavy, (Sat Nov 3, 10:29 am)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Martin Schröder, (Sat Nov 3, 11:21 am)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Karel Kulhavy, (Sat Nov 3, 12:20 pm)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Martin Schröder, (Sat Nov 3, 8:02 pm)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, bofh, (Sun Nov 4, 12:37 am)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Daniel Ouellet, (Sun Nov 4, 1:28 am)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Nick Guenther, (Sat Nov 3, 2:00 pm)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Lars Noodén, (Sat Nov 3, 7:40 am)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Karel Kulhavy, (Sat Nov 3, 9:03 am)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Lars Noodén, (Sat Oct 27, 10:26 am)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Woodchuck, (Sat Oct 27, 9:04 am)
Re: What is the "nice" process state?, Paul de Weerd, (Sat Oct 27, 8:17 am)