[slurm-users] runtime priority

[Lawrence Stewart]

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.

-Larry