nice configure

[Joshua Root]

William Davis wrote:
> 
> On Jan 9, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Adam Mercer wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 22:02, William Davis <frstan at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>
>>> AFAIK the nice command has been broken for a very long time.  Just
>>> bring up
>>> Activity Monitor and check it out.  You will fine the %CPU used by
>>> "nice"
>>> processes is always zero (unless you are using a really old OS).
>>
>> Thats a bug in ActivityMonitor not reporting nice'd processes
>> properly, I have a bug open with Apple about this. If you use top on
>> the command line then the nice'd processes will be properly displayed.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Adam
> 
> Really Adam?  Please show me where in this print of top I can see that:

I just tested on 10.5.6 by running 'nice nbench', and both Activity
Monitor and top show it using ~99% CPU...

- Josh