From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 28 13: 9: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from parodius.com (pentarou.parodius.com [205.149.163.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F60E37B404 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:09:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dpk@localhost) by parodius.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eASL94c53170 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:09:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpk) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:09:04 -0800 From: David Kirchner To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 'ps' and 'top' - what do the various negative priorities mean? Message-ID: <20001128130904.C30960@parodius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Is there a man page or some sort of reference to what all of the priority values mean as reported in 'top' or 'ps -o pri'? I've seen -6, -18, -22, etc, and am trying to figure out what seeing a lot of each of them would mean for server performance. - dpk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message