Hi Ketiw,
Wouldn't 'nice' work in this case?
$ man nice
...
NAME
nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
SYNOPSIS
nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]
...
In your submit script you would run the program as
nice -n 19 <program-name>
-----Original Message-----
From: slurm-users <slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com> On Behalf Of Loris
Bennett
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 9:15 AM
To: slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com
Subject: Re: [slurm-users] How to set priorities of actual obs
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
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Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de
