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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:37:14 +0300
From: Jani tiainen <redetin AT luukku DOT com>
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Subject: Re: nice not setting above/below normal
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Mironov, Leonid {PBG} wrote:

> If I am to believe windows task manager windows processes can have 6
> priority levels - realtime, high, above normal, normal, below normal and
> low, but cygwin nice can set only 2: when -n parameter is above 0 priority
> is set to low, when -n is below 0 priority is set to high, actual value of
> -n parameter is ignored. Am I missing something or ...?

Actually there is four real levels (realtime, high, normal, idle (low)).
For 2k and XP there is two more, below normal and above normal.

That behaviour might be due the fact that those two additional levels 
doesn't exists in Win 95, 98, ME or NT4.

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Jani Tiainen


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