On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:55:04AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 11:45:36AM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > > > >From the replies I got (none of which actually answered my question) it > > >looks > > like the "nice" state might be a state where the nice value != 0. Or less > > than > > zero would also make sense. But it could be also that OpenBSD has the nice() > > function like some other operating systems for giving up the scheduled time > > back to the system and then the nice state might show amount of time > > given up this way. So - what is the nice state printout actually? > > The 'nice' column should be the nice level. If its 0, then its not
It's clear to me what is the nice column. I asked for the nice state instead - if you run top, you have a line "CPU state: ...0.0% nice..." - that's the one I am asking about. CL< > niced either way. If its 2 then it has a niceness of 2, if its -2 then > its niceness is -2 which means its not nice to other processes. Since > the purpose of 'nice' is to adjust the scheduling priority, I don't > think anything keeps track of the amount of time given up this way. > > Keep in mind, nice is only for processor scheduling while in userland. > It doesn't affect scheduling of system calls or io. So a very nice > process can still use up a lot of system resources by hogging disk or > other I/O which itself can end up using CPU cycles. > > Doug.
