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From: Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:55:19 +0700
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Subject: Re: Questions about linux scheduler
To: Daniel Rodrick <daniel.rodrick@gmail.com>
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       Linux Newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>,
       Kernel Newbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
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On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Daniel Rodrick
<daniel.rodrick@gmail.com> wrote:
> One last question ... the nice value of a process never changes
> (unless done explicitly using nice system call), right?
>

Correct.... notice that only root who is able to alter the nice value
of any processes freely. Normal user can only renice its own created
process and only increase its nice value (thus decreasing its static
priority)


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Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

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