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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Does renice work?
- Message-ID: <nrg9ov8@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 03:16:00 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.222526.9166@news.iastate.edu> <nq81smc@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <1992Jul27.172142.19072@dale.ksc.nasa.gov> <1992Jul27.172835.19148@dale.ksc.nasa.gov>
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- In <1992Jul27.172835.19148@dale.ksc.nasa.gov> chc@orion.ksc.nasa.gov (Charles Curley) writes:
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- | I have a 4D/35 running 4.0.1 and renice doesn't seem to work. Here is what
- | happens on my machine:
- |
- ...
- | hydra $ renice 20 -p 9558
- | renice: 9558: setpriority: Invalid argument
- | hydra $ renice -20 -p 9558
- | renice: 9558: setpriority: Permission denied
- |
- | Of course, the last one is correct because I don't have permission to
- | "mean" the process. Hopefully I haven't missed this question flying about.
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- The man page has a minor error ;) The valid range is -20 to +19.
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