X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <2ce9650b0604040850u4931283bm418f5946f7fdcd16@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 16:50:42 +0100 From: "Chris January" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: nice under tcsh does not register under top? [Attn top maintainer] In-Reply-To: <44327892.6010707@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060404133613.GA4584@ingber.com> <44327892.6010707@byu.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k34FosG7025411 > According to Lester Ingber on 4/4/2006 7:36 AM: > > I have a tcsh script that runs some processes, e.g., `nice +19 gmake run`. > > I monitor the NI and %CPU columns under `top`. This works fine under > > FreeBSD and Solaris/SPARC, but under Cygwin the NI column always reads 0? > > > > Is it not possible to affect Windows priorities via Cygwin? > > It's possible, since cygwin 1.5.13 or so (for example, '/bin/nice > /bin/nice' outputs 10, since the first nice defaults the second to +10, > and the second displays its current nice value with no argument). In > tcsh, nice is a shell builtin, which defaults to +4 instead of +10, but my > testing shows that it works. It looks like top is not displaying nice > values properly. This isn't a problem with top but a missing feature of the /proc filesystem. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/