Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5.3 Severity: normal
The man page of the command 'nice' is very hard to understand. At least for non-native speakers of English. The explanation of what a positive or respectively negative value actually means is given as: "Nicenesses range from -20 (most favorable scheduling) to 19 (least favorable)." To me it is not clear what is exactly meant by favorable and, more importantly, for whom it is favorable. Favorable for the process that is niced or favorable for the other running processes. It would be much clearer if the man page contained a description like this: "Nicenesses range from -20 (process has high priority and gets more resources, thus slowing down other processes) to 19 (process has low priority and runs slow itself but has less impact on the speed of other running processes)." -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-k7 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information ² -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
