On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:52:00AM -0400, Lawrence Stewart 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.
I would first check if /etc/security/limits.conf contains "priority": suppose it is set to -19 for root, slurmd typically runs as root, child processes inherit the value... > -Larry -- Kind regards Frank Lenaerts
