04-02-2009
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Originally Posted by
rhfrommn
I don't trust the salary numbers in that review posted a few messages up. The starting is way too low, the 5 and 10 year may be too high. Depends on where you are working to a great extent, but they aren't accurate for my area (Minneapolis, MN). Finding jobs is fairly easy. Recruiters do call you fairly often once you're established and well-known. I've been laid off 3 times and switched jobs on my own 3 times in 10 years, and never been unemployed more than 8 days. But don't expect a 20% raise every time or to be making six figures by year 5. And totally ignore the guy talking about being an IPO millionaire. That guy is a comedian or an idiot . . . I'm guessing this is fairly old and they are referring to the late 90's tech bubble when things were out of control. Or maybe those comments came from people in silicon valley where you can make $150,000 and still be poor because the cost of living is so high.
Most places I've worked are pretty flexible about hours. They know Unix admins work nights and weekends pretty frequently so usually they aren't very strict about being there 9 to 5 every day. You will definitely be putting in your hours, just not the same hours as everybody else.
Vacations have never been a problem except for one job where I was the only Unix admin. Even there I could take days off but I had to prepare by making sure all necessary work during those days was done ahead of time and I had a backup to cover while I was gone (usually a DBA or programmer). I do not take my pager or laptop on vacation, but in an emergency it is possible they'd call me and that would be ok with me if it truly was important.
Thanks for the answer about the accuracy about the information.
Okay, so most people here seem to be putting the starting salary around $50 - $75k a year. What would you say would be the salary after 5 yrs or 10yrs? I thought the thing about making millions sounded a bit odd. That's why I was asking around here about the accuracy of the info. I know I read on a forum a few months ago some guy said he and other system administrators he knew were making about $75 an hour after working about 10 yrs. Where I read this I think the same person said to expect expect about $40 - $50 per/hr starting salary and that you can add about $3 an hour per extra years experience in the job. Does this info sound about right? Sorry for all the questions
Thanks for all the help though... I really appreciate it!
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
pthread_set_nice_np
pthread_get_nice_np(3T) pthread_get_nice_np(3T)
NAME
pthread_get_nice_np(), pthread_set_nice_np() - get or set the nice value of a thread
SYNOPSIS
PARAMETERS
thread The thread whose nice value is to be set/retrieved.
nice_val Value of nice to be applied to the target thread is returned (get function) or it specifies the new value of nice for
thread (set function).
DESCRIPTION
These functions are used to set and retrieve the nice value of an individual thread.
returns the current nice value setting of the target thread and stores it in nice_val. adds the value of nice_val to the current nice
value of the target thread.
A thread's nice value is a non-negative number. The system imposes a minimum nice value of 0 and a maximum of 39 with lower nice values
providing more favorable scheduling. If calling results in a nice value outside the range of 0 to 39, the value will be set to the nearest
limit. A process must have appropriate privileges to lower a thread's nice value. The function allows individual threads in the process
to have different nice values.
returns the current nice value less 20 and will be in the range -20 to +19.
The nice value of only system scope threads can be changed. An attempt to change the nice value of a process-scope thread will result in a
return value of Calling on a thread that has a scheduling policy other than will have an effect only when the thread's scheduling policy
changes to If a thread calls the system call to create a new process, the new process inherits the process-level nice value. Calling to
create a new thread will result in the new thread inheriting the creating thread's nice value.
Note
If the nice value of the entire process is changed through or all the threads in the process will have their nice values reset to the new
process-level nice value. The new process's nice value setting overwrites the old thread's setting. Thus its possible that a thread whose
nice value had been set higher than the process-level nice value have its nice value lowered as a result of the process-level re-nicing.
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, and return zero.
Otherwise, an error number is returned to indicate the error (the variable is not set).
ERRORS
If any of the following occur, the and functions return the corresponding error:
A process-scope thread was specified.
The caller does not have permission to lower the nice
value specified in nice_val.
No thread could be found corresponding to
thread.
AUTHOR
and were developed by HP.
SEE ALSO
fork(2), nice(2), setpriority(2), pthread_attr_getschedpolicy(3T), pthread_setschedparam(3T).
Pthread Library pthread_get_nice_np(3T)