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From: walton@stat.fsu.edu (Bill Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: how do nice and renice work?
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Date: 8 May 90 14:10:56 GMT
Reply-To: walton@stat.fsu.edu (Bill Walton)
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I am familier with nice and renice and what they do, my question
is how do they do it?  In some minimal testing I have done it
does not appear to be linear (ie I can have one job running at
nice 5 and another at nice 9, and the one at 9 will get no cpu).

Thanks  Bill Walton                    walton@stat.fsu.edu