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From: corkum@csri.toronto.edu (Brent Thomas Corkum)
Subject: nice
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.153530.24568@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
Date: 13 Dec 90 20:35:30 GMT
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A short question regarding the nice command. Does it work? What I notice
is that the priority of a job submitted using nice, the priority based
on what ps -el shows me, does not differ if I use nice. I tried all
sorts of increment numbers (see man nice). I also couldn't use negative
increment numbers if I was super user, I just get an error. I also take
it that the larger the increment the lower the priority. What is the default
increment for nice, and what are the default priorities without nice?

Brent Corkum
corkum@boulder.civ.toronto.edu