Strange nice value in top.

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On 14/05/07, Nikolay Pavlov <quetzal at zone3000.net> wrote:
> I've been watching this for about several months:
>
> last pid:  1140;  load averages:  0.20,  0.23,  0.17  up 0+00:08:35    03:25:40
> 79 processes:  1 running, 78 sleeping
>
> Mem: 127M Active, 390M Inact, 119M Wired, 524K Cache, 110M Buf, 347M Free
> Swap: 1624M Total, 1624M Free
>
>
>   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>  1119 root          1  -8 r-52  7280K  7304K biord    0:02  0.98% cdrecord
>                         ^^^^^^^^^
>   926 root          1  96    0   275M 18064K select   0:05  0.00% Xorg
>  1025 quetzal       1  96    0 33948K 28088K select   0:04  0.00% kdeinit
>  1013 quetzal       1  96    0 33488K 26680K select   0:04  0.00% kdeinit
>  1040 quetzal       1  96    0 27336K 21828K select   0:02  0.00% kdeinit
>   758 haldaemon     1  96    0  5900K  3940K select   0:02  0.00% hald
>  1046 quetzal       1  96    0 30120K 24160K select   0:02  0.00% kdeinit
>  1023 quetzal       1  96    0 29596K 23456K select   0:02  0.00% kdeinit
>  1120 quetzal       1  96    0 30120K 23848K select   0:02  0.00% kdeinit
>  1021 quetzal       1  96    0 27388K 21216K select   0:02  0.00% kdeinit
>  1041 quetzal       1  96    0 25828K 20544K select   0:02  0.00% ksocrat
>  1045 quetzal       1  96    0 29784K 24132K select   0:01  0.00% kdeinit
>  1052 quetzal       1  96    0 29784K 24128K select   0:01  0.00% kdeinit
>  1035 quetzal       1  60 r16F 11500K  7604K select   0:01  0.00% artsd
>                         ^^^^^^^^^
>  1028 quetzal       1  96    0  3348K  1492K select   0:01  0.00% ksysguardd
>   981 quetzal       1  96    0  4748K  2356K select   0:01  0.00% gam_server
>  1050 quetzal       1  96    0 32940K 24912K select   0:01  0.00% kdeinit
>   776 mysql        10 109    0 57800K 53800K ucond    0:01  0.00% mysqld
>
>
> quetzal at orion:~/bugs> uname -a                                                                                                                       <964>
> FreeBSD orion.zone3000.net 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0:
> Fri May 11 01:37:28 EEST 2007
> root at orion.zone3000.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

You are not alone. I observe it for months on CURRENT too. From the top:
  768 root          1   8 r-36  3504K   536K nanslp   0:10  0.00% watchdogd

>
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> - Best regards, Nikolay Pavlov. <<<-----------------------------------
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