Folks-
I have been employing DU's autonice facility for a while now.
However, after upgrading to DU 4.0D, it appears that autonice
has stopped working. I checked sysconfig to make sure the
parameter is still set, and it is:
113% sysconfig -q proc | grep auto
autonice = 1
autonice-time = 900
autonice-penalty = 14
Under 4.0B, these settings reniced a process to 14 after 15 minutes.
But the nice limit is not being activated:
114% cpups| head | cut -b 1-100
%CPU TIME ELAPSED PSR PRI PPR NI PID LOGNAME COMMAND
99.9 36:06.36 01:36:58 6 44 19 0 10122 mcnitt /usr/local/fbscapp/matlab5/bin/alp
99.9 11:08:24 11:08:58 2 50 13 6 29549 nqebatch /usr/tmp/covell/DG/SOURCE/dgdockMC
99.9 0:24.28 0:31 7 44 19 0 20803 muegge /seq/app/gcg/gcgbin/execute/fasta
0.3 0:00.87 34:13 5 44 19 0 16816 telnetd
0.1 02:40:24 11-03:07:48 ~0 38 25 -6 0 [kernel idle]
0.1 01:21:56 11-00:45:42 3 44 19 0 1043 nqebatch /usr/local/craysoft/nqe/3.2.0.2/bi
0.0 23:09.05 11-00:45:23 1 44 19 0 1117 nqebatch /usr/local/craysoft/nqe/3.2.0.2/bi
0.0 11:39.60 3-00:49:01 1 47 16 3 28533 nqebatch /usr/sbin/audit_tool -Q -f -O time
0.0 10:07.32 11-00:45:28 3 44 19 0 1109 nqebatch /usr/local/craysoft/nqe/3.2.0.2/bi
( NOTE: cpups is just a C-shell alias defined as
ps -e -o pcpu=9999%CPU,cputime,etime,psr,pri,psxpri,nice,pid,logname,command | sort -rn )
Under 4.0B, the process with PID 10122 above would have been reniced.
Has something changed in the way autonice works between 4.0B and 4.0D?
Thanks.
Toni Harbaugh-Blackford
harbaugh_at_nciaxp.ncifcrf.gov
Received on Fri Jun 19 1998 - 16:07:42 NZST