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| author | Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> | 2014-02-08 13:22:10 -0500 |
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| committer | Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> | 2014-02-10 19:02:36 +0100 |
| commit | e8f348035488124fe7dd36110813765bcc26d76d (patch) | |
| tree | 03182ebd1a084ee11fa4232dbebab77b6c74b5ce | |
| parent | c12e0662335e1da4d1b413f22e83d3f538fa2377 (diff) | |
| download | util-linux-e8f348035488124fe7dd36110813765bcc26d76d.tar.gz | |
renice: correct max priority in renice man page
The man page stated that the PRIO_MAX is 20. While this
is correct, the header definition is wrong and the max
value is actually 19.
[kzak@redhat.com: - remove PRIO_MAX from man page, kernel syscalls
use hardcoded numbers for the priority limits]
Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/renice.1 | 10 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/renice.1 b/sys-utils/renice.1 index 538687e3..8a332e14 100644 --- a/sys-utils/renice.1 +++ b/sys-utils/renice.1 @@ -85,15 +85,11 @@ PIDs 987 and 32, plus all processes owned by the users daemon and root: .SH NOTES Users other than the superuser may only alter the priority of processes they own, and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value'' (for security -reasons) within the range 0 to -.BR PRIO_MAX \ (20), +reasons) within the range 0 to 19, unless a nice resource limit is set (Linux 2.6.12 and higher). The superuser may alter the priority of any process and set the priority to any -value in the range -.BR PRIO_MIN \ (\-20) -to -.BR PRIO_MAX . -Useful priorities are: 20 (the affected processes will run only when nothing +value in the range \-20 to 19. +Useful priorities are: 19 (the affected processes will run only when nothing else in the system wants to), 0 (the ``base'' scheduling priority), anything negative (to make things go very fast). .SH FILES |