On Sun, 3 May 1998, David E. Fox wrote:

> If you want to specifically tell the system to run your process only
> when not doing anything else, then use 'nice -19' rather than 'nice'.

Unfortunately, you have the numbers backward.  Negative numbers have a
HIGHER priority than regular processes.  You want nice 20, not nice -19.
:)


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