Question re 'nice'

[johndrake]

Hi All,

How would one put "nice" in their .profile so that
it would execute all jobs at a lower priority? Specifically,
I have a job that runs a ksh job and it takes up a lot of cpu. Well lots of people are complaining, so I need to schedule these jobs so that they run at a lower priority.
How would I do this using Korn Shell and make it generic enough so that all my jobs would run at a lower priority
level.

-Joe

 

[pmcmicha]

Should be something like this:

nice -n 19 YOUR_SCRIPT_NAME (repeat as needed)

 

[ItsOnlyMoney]

As far as I know there is not a way to automatically NICE all jobs run under a particular login or account. However i'm looking to do this myself so if there is a method I would be grateful for the info too.

Just to verify, i'm not looking to explicitely "nice" every job i run by saying "nice -x scriptname.ksh", i'm looking for that nice priority to be the the default priority for any submissions under my id, which is what I beleive the other chap is looking for too, right?

I've heard beardy people talk of setting "pools" which have a particular priority config, but I am flirting ecotically with ignorance there.

Cheers, Colin.

 

[ItsOnlyMoney]

As far as I know there is not a way to automatically NICE all jobs run under a particular login or account. However i'm looking to do this myself so if there is a method I would be grateful for the info too.

Just to verify, i'm not looking to explicitely "nice" every job i run by saying "nice -x scriptname.ksh", i'm looking for that nice priority to be the the default priority for any submissions under my id, which is what I beleive the other chap is looking for too, right?

I've heard beardy people talk of setting "pools" which have a particular priority config, but I am flirting wildly with ignorance there.

Cheers, Colin.

 

[pmcmicha]

I'm not to sure you can just set this to globally affect your commands and scripts. I suppose you could set up an alias in your .profile for those instances in which you might want to run something at a lower priority, but that would be the only shortcut I know of....would be interesting if you could do something differently.

 

[johndrake]

Hi All,


Thank you for the suggestions. I am to automatically NICE
all jobs.

-Joe