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From: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: How to cheat with priorities.
Message-ID: <416@dcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 19:42:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: dcl-cs.416
Posted: Thu Aug 29 19:42:39 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 2-Sep-85 04:11:58 EDT
Reply-To: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University.
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We are running 4.2BSD on a VAX 11/750.  When a job has been running
continuously for ten minutes it's "nice" value automatically drops from 0 to 4.

As the ordinary user is not allowed to raise the "nice" value, here is a way to
stop it going to 4: using "/etc/renice", set it to 1 before the system sets it
to 4 -- it will stay at 1 for ever more.
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