insane -19 nice level for system service (mailgraph) - is it acceptable?

[Michał Piotrowski]

2010/12/8 Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>:
> Once upon a time, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> said:
>> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:57:21 -0600,
>>   Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>> > Once upon a time, Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com> said:
>> > >
>> > > PRIORITY=-19
>>
>> > Why do you (repeatedly) call it "insane"?  That's kind of rude.  The
>> > process is running at a low priority level; do you have a problem with
>> > that?
>>
>> Aren't negative priorities higher? I think this is running at the max
>> priority, not the min one.
>
> Negative priorities are higher, but that's not what is being set.  For
> historical compatibilty, "nice" takes a numeric option as a nice value,
> so "nice -n X" is the same as "nice -X" (it appears this behavior is not
> documented).  You can verify this:
>
> $ nice -n 19 ps -o nice,cmd
>  NI CMD
>  19 ps -o nice,cmd
> $ nice -19 ps -o nice,cmd
>  NI CMD
>  19 ps -o nice,cmd

Indeed, sorry for noice.

>
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