Re: [OMPI users] mpirun --nice 10 prog ??

[Eugene Loh]

David Mathog wrote: Ralph Castain wrote: Afraid not - though you could alias your program name to be "nice --10 prog" Is there an OMPI wish list? If so, can we please add to it "a method to tell mpirun what nice values to use when it starts programs on nodes"? Minimally, something like this: --nice 12 #nice value used on all nodes --mnice 5 #nice value for master (first) node --wnice 10 #nice value for worker (worker) nodes For my purposes that would be enough, as the only distinction is master/worker. For more complex environments more flexibility might be desired, for instance, in a large cluster, where a subset of nodes integrate data from worker subsets, effectively acting as "local masters". Obviously for platforms without nice mpirun would try to use whatever priority scheme was available, and failing that, just run the program as it does now. Or are we the only site where quick high priority jobs must run on the same nodes where long term low priority jobs are also running? I'm guessing people might have all sorts of ideas about how they would want to solve "a problem like this one". One is to forbid MPI jobs from competing for the same resources.  The assumption that an MPI process has dedicated use of its resources is somewhat ingrained into OMPI. Checkpoint/restart:  if a higher-priority job comes along, kick the lower-priority job off. Yield.  This issue comes up often on these lists.  That is, don't just set process priorities high or low, but make them more aggressive when they're doing useful work and more passive when they're waiting idly.