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Quiz: Practice: Process Priority and "nice" Concepts

Match the following items to their description in the table.

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High nice level
Negative nice level
root
Regular users
-20 - +19
  • DescriptionItem
    These kinds of processes easily give up their CPU resources for others.
    High nice level
    These kinds of processes attempt to keep CPU usage to themselves.
    Negative nice level
    Cannot assign negative nice levels
    Regular users
    Can renice processes belonging to other users
    root
    The complete range of nice levels
    -20 - +19
  • Revision: rh134-7-63a207e