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running it nice

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barbary

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I've just started running seti under solaris 2.6.

I want to run the process nice. Can I just put -nice or do I need a number after it??

Can somebody tell me the priority seti will run at for the following and which is the lower priority??

setiathome

setiathome -nice

setiathome -nice 15

Thanks
 
The lowest priority in *nix is nice 19. The highest I believe is nice -19 (or -20).

I discovered by accident that if you didn't nice seti explicitly, it would run about nice 13-15 on its own (shifting back and forth). So in a way, a "nice" by itself (which would probably be ignored) is about equal to a nice 15 for seti anyway - again just from my experience watching seti with other apps using top.

[Edit: BTW: The docs tell you that you can explicitly do a -nice 19 to set it for the lowest priority]
 


<< I have found that

setathome -stop_after_process -nice

makes it core dump.

>>



Yikes! I hate that. Then I would say if you run it without explicitly doing a -nice <blah>, ie., just running &quot;./setiathome&quot;, then expect it to run around nice 15 on its own. Again, this was based on me watching it with top and what top reported it was running at.
 
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