ksh discriminates background processes

[Eduardo Krell]

In article <siebren.644249314 at piring.cwi.nl> siebren at cwi.nl (Siebren van der Zee) writes:
>Does anybody know why the new Korn shell lowers the priority
>of background processes? 

Because you have the "bgnice" option on. Type "set -o" and you'll see
a line that says

bgnice           off

This is the default behavior. If you want this changed, add
"set +o bgnice" to your ENV file.
    
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