Re: what's this "nice" unix thing? I'm a sysadmin...

Collin Ong (collin@mcd.intel.com)
Fri, 23 May 1997 15:27:48 -0700 (PDT)

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On Fri, 23 May 1997, Dave Ahn wrote:
> man npri
> On SGI's, nice is a "subset" of npri. Using npri is much more effective
> in guaranteeing the allocation of only unused cycles to a low priority
> process.

AIX doesn't have npri, apparently. Top does list a PRI category, but
I'm not sure how to adjust it.

Any clues on how to tweak the priority on AIX boxes?>

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