"E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> writes: > I may be misreading you but: > nice values go between -20 and 20 where negative numbers have a > *higher* priority then positive numbers, it's a "rating" of how "nice" > my program is to others, so -20 is absolutely rude to the others and > doesn't share whereas 20 will always yield right of way...
Your understanding of niceness is right. What you are missing is that Shlomi uses the old (familiar, but deprecated) syntax: "nice -19" actually means the same as the more modern "nice -n 19". Check info coreutils 'nice invocation' for explanations and examples. [Also note that the nice argument is relative to the current niceness, not an absolute value.] -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
