kesim <ketiw...@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:41 PM Loris Bennett <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Ketiw, >> >> kesim <ketiw...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Dear all, >> > >> > I would like to submit a job in such a way that the actual program is >> > run with the lowest priority (nice=19 on linux). At the moment every >> > task has priority 0. Is it possible to do that and how? >> > >> > Best regards, >> > >> > Ketiw >> >> I'm not aware that this is possible. What would be the use-case for >> this? Normally you would want a job to make full use of any cores it >> had reserved. > I have slurm running on several desktops and we have only a few > application for its use. I would like the slurm submitted tasks to > have lowest priority so they are not hampering users who normally work > on their desktops. Please write to the list, rather than to me directly. I think you can probably achieve what you want with cgroups, but I have no experience of doing this myself. Regards Loris -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de
