Re: Changing process priority
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:49:14PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Nathan E Norman wrote:
>
> > Er, I think you'd want to use "nice --20" or "nice -n -20" or even
> > "nice --adjustment=-20"; "nice -20" implies a nice level ov positive
> > twenty whic is invalid; the highest numer (and lowest priority)
> > accepted is 19.
>
> Ought to be "nice -n -20" actually; "nice --20" is a deprecated form.
Oops. That's why I always refer people to the man pages. -n is probably
the best thing to remember, since "--20" looks strange and
"--adjustment" is a strictly GNUish thing.
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Michael Heironimus
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