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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:25:30 -0500
From:      anarcat <anarcat@tao.ca>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Can't use nice to lower ports build priority
Message-ID:  <20010320222530.A21759@dojo>

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Hi.

I am witnessing weird nice behavior here. Note that I'm doing this as
root.

Say I start sh with nice:

shall# nice sh

it works fine:

UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ  RSS WCHAN  STAT  TT       TIME COMMAND
  0 11250 10712   0  10  4   624  248 wait   SN    p2    0:00.01 sh

Actually, I wonder why nice is not 10, as nice(1) says..

But say I want to nice it to even lower priority:

shall# nice -20 sh

UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ  RSS WCHAN  STAT  TT       TIME COMMAND
  0 11252 10712   0  10 -20   624  260 wait   S<    p2    0:00.01 sh

Odd. Considering nice(1) says:

"Negative numbers are expressed as --number."

What's worse is that:

shall# nice --20 sh
nice: Badly formed number.
shall#

I don't get it.=20

Thanks.

A.

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