On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:07:44 -0500 "C High" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With nice, 20 is the lowest priority, 0 is the base, and -20 is the highest. that's right - it is because with nice you tell it 'how nice to be'. when you ask a process to have a level 20 of niceness, it will be VERY nice and the kernel will let other processes in front of it. If you say, this process will have a negative value of niceness, it isn't very nice at all ;) _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome We've been wrong so many times before, why stop now? I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"