"niced" processes on leopard

[Toby Peterson]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:06, William Davis <frstan at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> 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.  :(

For technical reasons, top & Activity Monitor cannot accurately report
the "niceness" of processes. This does not mean that the functionality
is not working.

- Toby