svn commit: r219003 - head/usr.bin/nice
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Feb 24 18:48:27 UTC 2011
On Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:13:33 am Remko Lodder wrote:
> Author: remko
> Date: Thu Feb 24 16:13:33 2011
> New Revision: 219003
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219003
>
> Log:
> Add wording about the priority range and
> mention what effect this has at certain
> values.
>
> PR: 124469
> Obtained from: NetBSD nice.1 v1.14
> MFC after: 1 week
>
> Modified:
> head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1
>
> Modified: head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1
>
==============================================================================
> --- head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 Thu Feb 24 14:56:12 2011 (r219002)
> +++ head/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 Thu Feb 24 16:13:33 2011 (r219003)
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
> .\" @(#)nice.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
> .\" $FreeBSD$
> .\"
> -.Dd June 6, 1993
> +.Dd February 24, 2011
> .Dt NICE 1
> .Os
> .Sh NAME
> @@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ value by the specified
> .Ar increment ,
> or a default value of 10.
> The lower the nice value of a process, the higher its scheduling priority.
> +.Ar increment .
> +The priority can be adjusted over a range of -20 (the higest) to 20 (the
> +lowest).
> +A priority of 19 or 20 will prevent a process from taking any cycles from
> +others at nice 0 or better.
Are you sure that this statement applies to both ULE and 4BSD? The two
schedulers treat nice values a bit differently.
--
John Baldwin
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