Ksh process priority gets reduced when started in background.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Process priority started in the background on ksh appear to be running at reduced priority (nice value of 4)
  • Sar cpu utilization reports high %nice values.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • ksh

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