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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:03:01 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nice values outside the expected range ...
Message-ID:  <20061025200301.GK53901@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061025151446.f1169ccc.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
References:  <20061025151446.f1169ccc.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>

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In the last episode (Oct 25), Bill Moran said:
> 
> I didn't know this was possible:
>   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> 11348 root          1  -4 -100  5740K  5764K getblk 0   0:00  0.00% cdrecord
> 11346 root          1  -8 -104  5740K  5764K cbwait 0   0:00  0.00% cdrecord
> 
> I thought the allowed values for nice were -20 to 20.  Is this something
> new in the 6.x branch?

cdrecord sets at least one of its processes to a realtime priority, and
they're printed in the NICE field as those big numbers.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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