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Subject: Re: nice under tcsh does not register under top?
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On Apr  4 06:36, Lester Ingber wrote:
> 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?

You did it, it's just not reflected in the NI column, but in the PR
column.  See the priority for the process in Task Manager, too.


Corinna

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