From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020913 Description of problem: There's no way to make nice give a process a nice level of 19. I've tried all of the flags on the nice manpage and all of them either don't work, or complain that I'm using a badly formed nice number. "Don't work" means that the process is still at nice zero after running nice. I don't know if this bug is with the kernel or what but it's at least a documentation bug. Anyway, running nice without specifying a number results in a level 4. Is that as good as 19, these days? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: nice -n 19 <program> nice --adjustment=19 <program> nice -19 <program> Actual Results: top shows the program at nice 0 Expected Results: program should be at nice 19latest kernel patch Additional info:
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