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- From: kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Program nices itself?
- Keywords: nice renice
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:11:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.203307.26208@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:
- >As far as I know, all versions of UNIX degrade the priority of processes
- >as they accumulate more CPU time.
-
- True, but that's reflected in the computed priority value, not the nice level.
- The two are different. I've only ever seen processes get niced for no reason
- under Ultrix.
-
- Well, let me rephrase that ... I've only seen processed get niced for reasons
- which I do not know under Ultrix :-) However, the only processes this seems
- to happen to are ones that are sucking up large amounts of memory and CPU.
-
- --Ken
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