[Gllug] Nice value

[Xander D Harkness]

Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On Nov 14 2002, Neil wrote:
> 
>>Hi All
>>
>>Can anyone tell me what a typically normal/good nice value is,
> 
> 
> um, 0?
> 
> 
>>and also what value is a time to start loosing one's marbles, quit you
>>job, and tour Europe for 6 months.
> 
> 
> I don't think you understand the concept of "nice". "nice" won't ever
> tell you to quit your job -- it'll leave that to its evil twin, "bad".
> How about reading some manpages?
> 
> Stig

It is a funny thing really as most of my mail servers are totally over 
specified for just relaying mail and sit well below 1

I had an outage for half a day and got a load of email at once to 
accept, scan for virii and check with spamassassin.  The relays were sat 
at about 2-300 for a good while.

The only other time I have seen it that high is when I was `testing` a 
spammers mail server with about 7-8000 emails.  (I did check that it was 
their mail server and not some fools open relay)

Cheers
Xander


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