Package: bsdutils Version: 1:2.20.1-4 Severity: minor Hi,
the manual page of renice talks about a maximum value of 20 for niceness.
But the bigges value that can be set is 19.
Users other than the super-user may only alter the priority of
processes they own, and can only monotonically increase their ``nice
value'' (for security reasons) within the range 0 to PRIO_MAX (20),
^^^^
unless a nice resource limit is set (Linux 2.6.12 and higher). The
super-user may alter the priority of any process and set the
priority to any value in the range PRIO_MIN (-20) to PRIO_MAX.
Useful priorities are: 20 (the affected pro‐ cesses will run only
^^^^
when nothing else in the system wants to), 0 (the ``base''
scheduling priority), anything negative (to make things go very
fast).
Bye, Jörg.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: unstable/experimental
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-rc5-04528-g70c8306
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages bsdutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-27
Versions of packages bsdutils recommends:
ii bsdmainutils 9.0.1
bsdutils suggests no packages.
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