<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>The man page for sbatch says this about the --nice option:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">--nice[=adjustment]<br> Run the job with an adjusted scheduling priority within Slurm. With no<br> adjustment value the scheduling priority is decreased by 100. A<br> negative nice value increases the priority, otherwise decreases it.<br> The adjustment range is +/- 2147483645. Only privileged users can specify<br> a negative adjustment.<br></blockquote><br></div>Does the --nice adjustment just apply to jobs I submit, or does it figure into a system-wide priority?<br><br></div>If
it applies just to my own jobs, it's very useful because as a non-admin
user (who can't adjust jobs to have higher priority) I can submit
regular jobs with --nice and keep open the possibility of submitting
higher priority ones (without using --nice) later on. That's great, as my
higher priority jobs then don't have to wait behind the sometimes many
thousands of my other jobs.<br><br></div><div>But if --nice applies
system wide, it's hard to imagine people using it. If I did, and no one
else does, I'm asking for my jobs to be run at a lower priority than
many, many jobs that are already in the system and which will arrive in
the meantime. I'm sure the job will run eventually, but...<br><br></div><div>Can someone confirm which of these is the case? Or is it more complicated than that?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><br></div>Terry<br><br></div>