"niced" processes on leopard

[William Davis]

On Sep 10, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Toby Peterson wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:30, Yen, Wenchieh <yenwenchieh at gmx.de>  
> wrote:
>> while some have already embraced snow leopard, I just moved on to  
>> leopard.
>>
>> to my surprise that the old school nice/renice don't seem to work any
>> more, though ps -l still says that the processes are niced. the
>> 'buildnicevalue' in macports.conf has thus no effect at all.
>>
>> Perhaps someone can give me a lesson or two about the most  
>> "advanced" OS?
>
> I don't understand what you're asking. Could you explain what behavior
> you're seeing and how this differs from your expectations?
>
> - Toby


I reported this bug to Apple right after Leopard came out. Now we have  
Snow Leopard.  As a solution Apple has removed the "Nice" category  
from the CPU section of Activity Monitor.  :(

William Davis
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