Magnus Eriksson wrote:
>> The ionice priority is similar to nice, but the levels nice values range
>> from 0 to 10, and unlike the usual nice, 10 is the highest priority and 0
>> the lowest. Usage is exactly the same as nice:
>
> I think the principle of least surprise would suggest that it should
> work exactly like nice, rather than flip it around, or people will get
> confused why the misbehaving program continues to eat all IO even after
> they reniced it. :-)
nice is actually intuitive - the higher the number, the 'nicer' the
processes are to the rest of the system..
negative nice => "mean"
it's just *system* relative - not process relative..
perhaps a commentary on our modern individualistic nature, that we get
this wrong..
or something..
shutting up now.