Debian bug report logs - #853 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#853: `nice' does not do anything Reply-To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 14:18:03 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: shellutils X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Wed, 03 May 1995 14:18:03 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 050314150322530; Wed, 03 May 1995 14:15:03 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0s6fBA-000647C; Wed, 3 May 95 07:13 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA14689 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 3 May 1995 07:12:03 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0s6fB5-000C0bC; Wed, 3 May 95 15:13 BST Received: by chiark id m0s6So4-0000Y6Z (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.30); Wed, 3 May 95 02:00 BST Message-Id: Date: Wed, 3 May 95 02:00 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Debian bugs submission address Package: shellutils Version: 1.12-3 $ (while true; do true; done) & [1] 20015 $ time nice -20 ls Mail t typescript 0.00user 0.10system 0:00.50elapsed 19%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (26major+116minor)pagefaults 0swaps $ time /old/usr/bin/nice -20 ls Mail t typescript 0.00user 0.08system 0:02.73elapsed 2%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (17major+85minor)pagefaults 0swaps $ nice -20 nice 0 $ /old/usr/bin/nice -20 nice 14 $ strace nice -20 true 2>&1 | grep setprio setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, 0) = 0 $ strace /old/usr/bin/nice -20 true 2>&1 | grep setprio setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, 20) = 0 $ type nice nice is /usr/bin/nice $ Honestly, come on, we can do better than this ! Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Subject: Bug#853: Acknowledgement (was: `nice' does not do anything) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#853" or "Re: Bug#853" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov