"niced" processes on leopard

[Toby Peterson]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:47, Yen, Wenchieh <yenwenchieh at gmx.de> wrote:
> By creating 2 'yes > /dev/null' and one 'nice -n 19 yes > /dev/null' on
> my core2duo, I would expect to see 2 cpus get near 100% load while one
> get supressed due to a lower priority.
>
> What I got was quite equally distributed cpu cycles to these 3 (though
> the niced one seemed to have a slightly lower load). I checked it with
> 'top' or 'Activity Monitor'.
>
> In the mean time I checked the niced one with 'ps'. The STAT column
> showed 'RN+' -- implying it was niced.

Sounds like it's working.

- Toby