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Date:      Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:11:35 +0300
From:      Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <doublef@tele-kom.ru>
To:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com>
Subject:   Re: scheduling priority not working?
Message-ID:  <20040229121135.2f17545a@Hal.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20040228052824.GA76835@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 06:28:24 +0100
Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> probably wrote:

> Let me guess: You are using [t]csh as your shell, right?
> That has 'nice' as a built-in command with a slightly different syntax
> than /usr/bin/nice  (which is what is documented in the nice(1)
> manpage)

Substitute `slightly different' for `evil and incompatible':).

That's why it's so usable to use an escape so that the nice binary
would be used, not the built-in command:

$ \nice -n 19 make

There's more than nice to change priority; for example, check out
rtprio(1) and idprio(1). Just FYI.

HTH,

-- 
DoubleF
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you will look forward to the trip.

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