On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:23:51 -0700, AGC wrote:
> I did try to put just -N on the flags but it doesn't work. I can see in
> top that ntpd is not running at higher priority as if the rc_flags were
> being ignored entirely.
"Nice" is different from "priority". Are you looking at the correct
field in top?
You can also check nice values with, say, "ps -o nice -p <pid>".
The nice value *influences* the priority, but sometimes not as
much as you would think :-)
~Ben