Re: What is Nice memory?
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 03:07, Ralph Alvy wrote:
> I'm running xmcpustate and notice that, besides CPU usage, it shows how much
> memory is being used, dividing it up into 4 categories of usage: User,
> Kernel, NIce, and System. What's *Nice* in this regard?
I don't know whats nice in this regard, but in linux (unix) the nice
level of a process is the priority it has with regards to other
processes. i.e how much preference it gets from the cpu (bigger or small
time slices). IIRC 1-16 is kernel level and 17-32 is user and the
smaller the number the higher the priority (there is probably an off by
one error here).
Notice that its different then the built in cpu priority states (which
define the access control the process has in terms of resources).
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Micha Feigin
michf@math.tau.ac.il
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