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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.

By the way, following these directions,
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

and including 'cygcheck -svr' output as a text attachment, would have let
us know if you need to upgrade your installation.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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