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Re: [Condor-users] Condor_exec Nice level?



On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:18 -0500, Ericson, Michael (Exchange) wrote:
> I've noticed that the "condor_exec.exe" processes on my Condor workers
> have UNIX "nice" level 10, which is problematic because sometimes these
> jobs will get starved of CPU time (e.g. 10 CPU mins in 4 wall-clock
> hours).  Is there a way to tell Condor (e.g. via "condor_prio") to use a
> specific nice value?
> 
> My apologies if this is covered in the manual for that utility, my brain
> hurts.  Thanks in advance.

AFAIK, the nice-level can't be set by the user. It is controlled by the
JOB_RENICE_INCREMENT variable in the daemon config file. 

	/ Johan