Questions tagged [nice]
A tool to change the priority of a process, giving it more or less CPU time.
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Process with higher nice uses greater resources
We have an emulated SUSE 390 system where the niceness is not being respected by specific processes. We're seeing multiple instances of processes with a niceness of 10 superseding processes that have ...
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How to permanently change niceness of apache2 process on a Debian server?
I have Debian 11.2 with Apache2. I'd like to change niceness of all of my apache2 processes, or at least mod_wsgi processes, to +5. How can I do it?
Adding Nice=5 to /usr/lib/systemd/system/apache2....
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Setting nice value of all user processes in realtime based on his CPU usage
In order to balance users CPU consumption on a shared computing server, I would think it very useful if one could:
set the nice level for all processes of a user
furthermore, adapt this level in ...
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processes running nice +20 still make the system sluggish
if i have a process that i wish to run in the background on all cores, it can make the system extremely sluggish, even running at nice +20. Running out of memory or io is not the issue. Is there any ...
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Why is CPU usage somewhat "nicer" today than yesterday?
First post here from an eager learner more educated with front end. Please consider the following munin graph:
Considering the general traffic the site on this box got today was the "same" as ...
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how to *start* a process with a high priority
Notes:
1. by lower priority I mean that the priority number is lower.
2. Distro is RHE
I want to start a daemon with lower than normal priority (ie. say 18 rather than 20) so it will get cpu ...
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How to run docker build at lower priority?
I often have to re-build Docker images, and I do that inside the host I run my containers in. Occasionally I see that this puts considerable pressure on the CPU, so I thought I could run docker build ...
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rsync: Maximum nice to keep system responsive
Unfortunately a background rsync reduces the responsiveness of a server.
I search a way to have maximum niceness for this background task, to keep the server respond fast.
My current wrapper ...
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Automatic CPU load balancing for program or program group under Linux?
assume the following setup: system (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) with 40 cores, lots of RAM. Additionally a program which is only partly multithreaded. That is, it constantly switches between running on multiple ...
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Get NewRelic to respect ionice'd processes
On our web server, we perform an incremental backup of our files every 4 hours using rsnapshot. To perform the actual copying of files, I've configured it to use a custom script, cp-nice that has the ...
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Setting default nice value for a program on linux
Strange as it seems, I can't find information how I can set a default nice value for a program (not for a user or a group!). I would like to start all chrome and firefox instances with a nice value of ...
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How to configure the niceness or priority of service started on boot
I want to increase the niceness of an service (decrease the CPU priority) started as an dedicated user or group during the boot process. I'm not able to define the niceness or priority in the /etc/...
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nice, ionice are not enough
I have a script that starts big, CPU and memory consuming tree of processes. There is Python and executables down there, but everything starts with single bash script and python subprocesses.
During ...
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Using nice scheduling priority with tar/gzip cron script
I do large backups that put huge strains on my server when using tar/gzip. I've got the task setup as a cronjob which accesses my script that handles the backup. I know that nice might be able to ...
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getting an application to run with the same priority as cpu idle
I have a solaris server that needs to run a timecritical application as fast as possible, although setting it to the RT priority class doesnt seem like a good idea since it may need 100 CPU for ...
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MySQL 5.6.21 on Debian 7.7 -- nice is automatically set to 19 several seconds after starting it up; can't figure out why
I'm running MySQL 5.6.21 on an OpenVZ VPS with Debian 7.7. MySQL is installed from the DotDeb repository (full version number is 5.6.21-1~dotdeb.1).
Whenever the MySQL server is started or restarted, ...
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init process' nice level
The init process on a Debian server (VPS) I've inherited has its nice value set to +10.
There's nothing particularly obscure installed on the system. It has a LAMP stack and does a lot of IO and will ...
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Logstash from RPM fails to run under nice command
I downloaded the Logstash RPM logtsash-1.4.2-1_2c0f5a1.noarch from the official site, but have been having problems getting it to run from the init script.
I get no log data passed to Elasticsearch/...
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How to Prioritise ssh logins (nice)
Exact duplicate of this question, which has an accepted answer that doesn't solve the problem.
How do I set sshd to run with a higher priority, so that even if the system is massively overloaded (e.g....
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How do I allow www-data to (negatively) change the niceness of a process in Linux?
So I'm running a website using django and sometimes I call scripts located on the server by spawning a subprocess in python.
When looking at the processes with "top" I see these are called under the ...
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nice command - are other commands executed with script also niced?
A quick question about how nice works.
Say if I have a script that runs in the crontab like so
0 4 * * * nice -n 19 /usr/local/admin/script.pl
It is set to the lowest priority. This script will ...
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Why are my "nice" levels not reflected in CPU usage? [duplicate]
Given a VM with 1 CPU. I run two similar CPU intensive tasks in two terminals:
/usr/bin/nice -n -20 perl -e 'while(1){$a=1+1;}'
/usr/bin/nice -n 19 perl -e 'while(1){$a=1+1;}'
I would expect that ...
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Is it possible to assign a nice and ionice priority to all scripts executed by cron daemon?
To be a bit more concrete:
I have a Debian Squeeze Linux machine with a web application that should become available all over the planet. Until now I had a bunch of resource consuming cronjobs each ...
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Changing priorities of background vs foreground processes?
The commends nice/renice have no effect between processes started as foreground process and processes started as background processes. Even with maximum niceness on the foreground processes they get ...
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Change nice level of currently running script
I would like to change the nice level of the currently running script:
#!/bin/bash
nice_it ( ) {
nice
ps -o "%p %r %y %x %n %c %a"
}
nice_it
That does not work, since nice tries to change ...
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Nice level not working on linux
I have some highly floating point intensive processes doing very little I/O. One is called "xspec", which calculates a numerical model and returns a floating point result back to a master process ...
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slow down processes (cpu usage)
I found out that an imagemagick/convert application on my VPS is causing troubles due to high load on my box. Now i added renice with priority 10 to all of these convert-processes for throttling each ...
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Use cases for having different process priority for CPU and IO?
Linux processes can have different CPU and IO priority (nice and ionice).
Why is there a need to have different CPU and IO priority?
Is there any real world usage for having them different?
What ...
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Guideline for `nice` priority number?
I'd like a more systematic way for prioritizing my tasks with nice(1).
Obviously 0 is "normal", 19 is "lowest priority" and -19 is "highest priority", but what about all the other numbers?
If I have ...
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Prioritise ssh logins (nice)
Is there a preferred way to set "nice" for sshd?
I need priority given to sshd such that I can login and easily fix stuff when something has gone wrong (eg DoS, badly behaved processes, etc)
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"nice" for memory management
Before the question I give you a bit of background : I am running a website on a VPS. The VPS itselmf runs the apache web server, the PHP code that produce the pages with acvces to a SQLite DB, and ...
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nice cpu usage showing, but process wasn't explicitly run with nice
About 25% of my CPU usage is attributed to "nice" which is all coming from one process.
The process in question was not started with nice(1) nor was it adjusted with renice(1) -- at least not ...
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Running Hudson builds with a lower process priority
At my office we have an older server running Hudson (1.395) and a collection of other things (JIRA and SVN being the important two). When Husdon is running builds, the slowdown on the server is very ...
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What is the impact of increasing the httpd process priority (negative nice)?
Renicing a process to a negative nice level increases the process's scheduling priority. High priority processes are run before low-priority processes. They are also allowed to run longer before being ...
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Process niceness value
I was just looking for some clarification about the niceness value of a process, or perhaps some advice if I'm going about this all wrong.
Say I have a couple dozen web server processes on a single ...
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ionice process group?
Is there an easy way to change the I/O priority of a whole group of processes the way renice -g does? It seems like only changing the I/O priority of a single process is supported by ionice. If this ...
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Renice: How to change all threads?
When I renice a multithreaded process in Ubuntu 10.04, then view the results in top, it seems that only the main thread actually gets reniced. All the other threads retain their old nice value. What'...
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Linux Host: Background Jobs + VM + Prioritization?
I'm running a setup consisting of a Linux host OS and a Windows 7 guest (VMware Workstation). I'm trying to run 16 CPU-bound background jobs on the Linux host at nice values of 19 (the lowest ...
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How to set i/o priority for nfs client processes?
The configuration is: A linux server and a nas box (netgear) acting as nfs server.
It is easy for a single process on the linux server to use all i/o bandwidth by simply copying a file from the nfs ...
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How "nice" determines amount of cpu resource to give
Is there a particular formula to calculate the amount of cpu resources that is allocated for a process when you "nice" it?
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nice renice and ionice
I've read about nice renice and ionice to control the scheduling priority of running processes. However, I still don't understand when and how are they useful for. For instance doing something like:
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Limiting maximum cpu time for user-launched programs
We have a cluster running CentOS with Sun Grid Engine for research simulations. However, some users who aren't too familiar with the system end up running jobs on the head node, which of of course ...
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How do I run Postgres under "nice"?
I usually start Postgres with pg_ctl -D /db start
How can I make it start under "nice", so it runs at a lower priority?
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What's the effect of the nice param in the mysqld_safe settings
We have a server that only runs MySQL. I'm trying to increase its performance to the maximum, and I was wondering whether changing the nice setting in my.cnf would have any favorable effect. Anyone?
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Webalizer causing high CPU load
We use webalizer to generate reports on our Apache access logs - it is useful in conjunction with Google Analytics.
The problem is that webalizer uses ALOT of CPU when running. If I run top I can see ...
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VLC video encoding produces high 'nice' load
There is a server with vlc process for real-time video encoding.
Here is output of top with 1(show processors) and H(show threads)
top - 15:50:26 up 42 min, 1 user, load average: 2.64, 2.60, 2.45
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Equivalent of `nice` for filesystem IO?
When I'm running an rsync backup job which involves copying over large files, the machine running the backup (both Mac desktops and Linux servers) grinds to a halt and the load average goes through ...
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