From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752627AbXCMXqG (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:46:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752633AbXCMXqG (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:46:06 -0400 Received: from mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.48.8]:42231 "EHLO mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752627AbXCMXqE (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:46:04 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1602 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:46:04 EDT To: Xavier Bestel Cc: Con Kolivas , ck@vds.kolivas.org, Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Mike Galbraith , Linus Torvalds , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 References: <200703111457.17624.kernel@kolivas.org> <20070313081805.GA22327@elte.hu> <200703132021.50712.kernel@kolivas.org> <200703132031.39370.kernel@kolivas.org> <200703132031.39370.kernel@kolivas.org> <1173781487.9840.10.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04> From: Sanjoy Mahajan Date: 13 Mar 2007 23:19:12 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1173781487.9840.10.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > a previous discussion that said 4 was the default...I don't see > why. nice uses +10 by default on all linux distro...So I suspect > that if Mike just used "nice lame" instead of "nice +5 lame", he > would have got what he wanted. tcsh, and probably csh, has a builtin 'nice' with default +4. So tcsh% nice ps -l will show a process with nice +4. If you tell it not to use the builtin, tcsh% \nice ps -l then it uses /usr/bin/nice and you get +10. bash doesn't have a nice builtin, so it always uses /usr/bin/nice and you get +10 by default. -Sanjoy `Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)