Re: [Condor-users] Dedicated resource job niceness

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 7, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Bruno Goncalves wrote:

> I just noticed something on my dedicated test machine. Processes  
> started by condor seem to have a higher niceness than normal  
> ("Owner initiated") processes. As a result they get lower CPU %.  
> For instance:
>
> 14194 bgoncalv  25   0  4932 1472 1240 R 66.0  0.3  86:07.77 EO-time.x
> 31365 bgoncalv  35  10  4096 1464 1240 R 33.2  0.3   2:56.67 EO-time.x
>
> The exact same executable, the first line was hand started using  
> "nohup" and the second one was started by submiting a job to  
> condor. Is there anyway to change this? In particular I would like  
> condor initiated processes to be run with the same priority as if  
> they had been started by the machine's owner.

You want to set JOB_RENICE_INCREMENT in your condor config file. The  
condor manual has more information:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/ 
v6.7/3_3Configuration.html#param:JobReniceIncrement

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