How to permanently set higher process priority in GUI

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Mon Jul 20 10:04:59 UTC 2015


Mark Widdicombe wrote:
> On 20 July 2015 at 11:18, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Well, your nice -19 gives the lowest priority, not the highest.
> 
> No, from man: " The nice value can range from -20 to 19, with 19 being
> the lowest priority."

You forgot (also from "man nice"):

| -n, --adjustment=N
|  add integer N to the niceness (default 10)

So if you use nice -19 you add 19 to the current nice level which makes 
the new nice level 19 which is the lowest priority according to your 
quote.


Nils





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