From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 07:29:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA10390 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 07:29:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dira.bris.ac.uk (dira.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA10385 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 07:29:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kukini.cs.bris.ac.uk by dira.bris.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Thu, 8 Aug 1996 15:28:33 +0100 Received: from kiha by kukini.compsci.bristol.ac.uk id aa03703; 8 Aug 96 14:29 GMT From: David Hedley To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: kernel renicing processes... X-Address: Computer Science Dept., University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. X-Work-Phone: +44 (117) 954 5119 X-Attribution: Dave Date: Thu, 08 Aug 96 15:27:59 +0100 Message-ID: <27545.839514479@kiha> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does the kernel automatically nice down long running processes? I have noticed several processes being niced down to '4' despite my best efforts. Is it possible to tune what value these processes get niced to, and when it happens? I've checked sysctl but there doesn't seem to be an appropriate parameter to tweak. This is with 2.1.0-RELEASE Cheers, David -- David Hedley (David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk) finger hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk for PGP key Computer Graphics Group | University of Bristol | UK