Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:09:58 -0700 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: nice not setting above/below normal Message-ID: <20040613230958.GA4084@efn.org> References: <1981E79C7C98A547B36D794FBEC5337002967DF6 AT MOSCNTX1> <40C9A8BE DOT DF5B7EAF AT dessent DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40C9A8BE.DF5B7EAF@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: bs"d X-IsSubscribed: yes On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 05:42:38AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > reserved for real-time processes. The remaining range 1-15 are the > regular (dynamic) priorities that most processes run with. In reality > you don't set the priority directly this way, rather you choose a > priority class (realtime, high, normal, idle; corresponding to 24, 13, > 8, 4) and then a modifier (highest, above normal, normal, below normal, > lowest; corresponding to +2, +1, 0, -1, -2). Is that correct? Shouldn't idle be 3 to allow the full 1-15 range? -- 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/