[Info-vax] nice for VMS

[Carl Friedberg]

> Just run in batch at low priority.  You'll get the CPU nobody else is using
> and nobody will notice.

Well, usually.

If some idiot programmer (say, a contract programmer from south Asia) doesn't
know VMS very well, and decides to use the $CREPRC macro to create a
process, and doesn't realize that defaulting the priority creates the process
with priority=0 (see suggestion above), and if that process is a
critical process,
then you will become unpopular for saying "my priority 2 job can't possibly
affect any other processes..."

I've seen it happen, and it was a huge political problem.

Carl Friedberg