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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Few Questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.095800.8222@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 09:58:00 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.030814.18259@utstat.uucp>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 13
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- rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student)) writes:
- >2) (did ask it before but no answer...) Why does (re)nice
- >in top seem to work au reverse (ie renicing the process
- >-19 seemes to speed it up, +14 slows it a lot)
-
- The `nice' value is a measure of how eager the process is to run. A
- nice process doesn't want to run very eagerly, instead it lets other
- processes run more. So if you increase the nice value, it gets even
- less eager to run, and therefore other, less nice processes run more and
- the nice process runs more slowly.
-
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- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
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