* Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 17:57 +0100, Toralf Förster wrote:
>
> > It would be nice to run a grid application at lowest priority
> > without impact to power / fan / temperature but OTOH have full
> > performance for desktop applications, isn't it ?
>
> This can be achieved by giving the group/uid the grid application uses
> a weight of 2.
yes, that's the correct solution. For example, the following line in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local:
echo 2 > /sys/kernel/uids/`grep -w nobody /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f3`/cpu_share
sets user 'nobody' to a very low cpu weight. If there's any grid user,
it can be done similarly. The default is 1024.
Ingo
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