Re: Difference in priority

[Ankit Jain <ankitjain1580@yahoo.com>]

Sorry but iu could not get why are you adding and
subtracting this 60 in priorities. that corelation i
had also got but could not understrand whats this 60?
and also what is this dynamic priority? hows different
from normal priority

thanks

ankit
 --- Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote: 
> Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Ankit Jain wrote:
> > 
> >> hi
> >>
> >> if somebody knows the difference b/w /PRI of both
> >> these commands because both give different
> results
> >>
> >> ps -Al
> >> & top
> >>
> >> as per priority rule we can set priority upto
> 0-99
> >> but top never shows this high priority
> > 
> > 
> > Priority values 0-99 are real time ones and
> 100-139 are normal 
> > scheduling ones. RT scheduling does not change
> dynamic priority while 
> > running wheras normal scheduling does (between
> 100-139). top shows the 
> > value of the current dynamic priority in the PRI
> column as the current 
> > dynamic priority-100. If you have a real time task
> in top it shows as a 
> > -ve value. ps -Al seems to show the current
> dynamic priority+60.
> 
> That should read dynamic priority-60 in the PRI
> column.
> 
> Cheers,
> Con
>  

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