Re: highest nice(1) -n increment value?

2013-07-15 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/8/13 6:48 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: It is not clear from the nice(1) man page, i.e. for /usr/bin/nice, not a shell built-in nice, what is the highest increment value nice will accept. It seems it is limited to 20. I tried $

highest nice(1) -n increment value?

2013-07-08 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
It is not clear from the nice(1) man page, i.e. for /usr/bin/nice, not a shell built-in nice, what is the highest increment value nice will accept. It seems it is limited to 20. I tried $ /usr/bin/nice -n 100 portmaster -a But all processes spawned by the portmaster have the nice value of only