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From: wht@tridom.uucp (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: renice
Summary: bsd does do a renice
Message-ID: <119@tridom.uucp>
Date: 19 May 89 17:54:05 GMT
References: <62@utower.UUCP> <910@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG>
Organization: Tridom Corporation, Atlanta
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> >It's resets the priority of a process to a lower priority if the process
> >runs longer than n minutes.
> I think that you will find that you are just duplicating work.
> The kernel already does this.  It does not adjust the visible nice value,
> but there is a kernel internal interpretation of "priority" which is
> adjusted by the kernel. 

The BSD kernel will actually raise the nice value for long running cpu
hogs.
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