There’s a --nice flag to sbatch and srun, at least. Documentation indicates it decreases priority by 100 by default.
And untested, but it may be possible to use a job_submit.lua [1] to adjust nice values automatically. At least I can see a nice property in [2], which I assume means it'd be accessible as job_desc.nice in the Lua script. [1] https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/blob/master/contribs/lua/job_submit.lua [2] https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/blob/master/src/lua/slurm_lua.c > On Jun 30, 2020, at 9:52 AM, Lawrence Stewart <stew...@serissa.com> wrote: > > How does one configure the runtime priority of a job? That is, how do you > set the CPU scheduling “nice” value? > > We’re using Slurm to share a large (16 core 768 GB) server among FPGA > compilation jobs. Slurm handles core and memory reservations just fine, but > runs everything nice -19, which makes for hugh load averages and terrible > interactive performance. > > Manually setting the compilation processes with “renice 19 <pid>” works fine, > but is tedious. > > -Larry > >
