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From: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: nice(1) not very nice
Message-ID: <510@chem.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 27 Jul 89 00:14:26 GMT
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Reply-To: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
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The nice command of csh (on the 4D series machines, at least) does not
nice things very far.  nice +19 is supposed to be the maximum niceness,
but the split in cpu time between a job so nice'ed and a job with
not niced is only 20/80.  That is if you have one nice +19 job and
one not-nice'ed job, 20% of the cpu time still goes to the nice'ed job.

I would much prefer that the split be more like 2/98.  Does anyone know
if there is a way to reconfigure things so that this is possible?
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|| Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry	tps@chem.ucsd.edu