On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Assaf Gordon <gordon@cshl.edu> wrote:
Peter Cock wrote, On 04/21/2011 12:59 PM:
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Assaf Gordon <gordon@cshl.edu> wrote:
I know nice isn't perfect, but in the case of the sys admin setting up Galaxy, we don't have the human laziness problem to overcome: We could ensure all job tasks get run with nice 10 automatically, without the Galaxy users having to do anything special.
The article goes to explain further why "nice" is not the best option, the above quote was just a jest. But you are right that it's better than nothing.
:)
Unfortunately, "cgroups" requires a recent kernel, so it might not be applicable in your case.
Are you using cgroups on your Galaxy?
Only on my development system - unfortunately my production serve uses CentOS 5 with an old kernel and no cgroup support.
Our production server is on CentOS 5.4, which is occasionally annoying. Peter