Re: Adding nice to an rc.d script

[Ben Cottrell <tamino%wolfhut.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:23:51 -0700, AGC wrote:
> I did try to put just -N on the flags but it doesn't work.  I can see in 
> top that ntpd is not running at higher priority as if the rc_flags were 
> being ignored entirely.

"Nice" is different from "priority". Are you looking at the correct
field in top?

You can also check nice values with, say, "ps -o nice -p <pid>".

The nice value *influences* the priority, but sometimes not as
much as you would think :-)

        ~Ben