# # Sample priority database for the auto-nice daemon, /etc/and.priorities # # Comments must have the # in the _first_ column! # # File format: # user group job parent nice1 nice2 nice3 # - user: user name or user id or * for all # - group: group name or group id or * for all # - job: executable (without path; may be a regexp) or * for all # - parent: keyword "parent=" or "ancestor=" followed by the # executable (without path; may be a regexp), or * for all # - nice1, nice2, nice3: nice levels for CPU usage ranges. # # At least one of user or group must be an asterisk *. # # After /etc/and.conf:lv1time seconds matching jobs are niced to nice1, # after /etc/and.conf:lv2time to nice2 and after /etc/and.conf:lv3time # to nice3. # # Read and.priorities(5) for details. # # 1999, 2000, 2004 Patrick Schemitz, schemitz@users.sourceforge.net # # # Philosophy: # # Hold down notorious troublemakers (Netscape, colourful screensavers, ...) # and leave other jobs alone. (Within reason, that is.) # Note that a perceptive user might rename his jobs' executables to # obtain higher privilegue. So the values must be sensible to that. # For instance, noone with his mind right would rename his computation- # intensive job to "gcc" to avoid renicing after two minutes, since # gcc is reniced to 19 after just another 18 minutes... # # # Default entry -- moderate renicing, priority always above screen savers. # * * * * 4 8 12 # # Jobs started by the Grid master process always run on 10. If someone # else besides User grid starts a (fake, presumably) Grid master, kill it # at once: it's a fraud! The real Grid master, of course, is left alone. # #* * * ancestor=grid_nanny 10 10 10 #* * grid_nanny * -9 -9 -9 #grid * grid_nanny * 0 0 0 # # Jobs of the local user are treated more nicely. The local user is # identified by the fact that her programs are started by the login # screen, kdm or xdm in this case. # * * * ancestor=[xk]dm 2 2 2 # # The hosts bar and baz are reserved for the foo group, so # prefer them over other groups. # #on (bar|baz) #* foo * * 4 8 12 #* * * * 12 16 18 #on .* # # Our special friend, user dau, tends to thresh machines with long- # running unniced jobs... we do not appreciate this behaviour. A little # punishment might be in order. # #dau * * * 12 16 18 # # Netscape -- more than 20 minutes probably means it's running berserk, # so we just kill it off. # * * .*netscape.* * 2 -9 -9 # # Compilers -- don't renice them the first 20 minutes, but then... # After an hour of compilation for one single source file, there # *is* something wrong. # ld and make shouldn't use more than 2 minutes themselves, so we # just leave them to the default. # * * gcc * 0 19 -9 * * g++ * 0 19 -9 * * g77 * 0 19 -9 * * cc1 * 0 19 -9 # # Screen savers -- low priority from the beginning, but enough to log in. # KDE screen savers all end with .kss. # * * xlock.* * 15 15 15 * * .*\.kss * 15 15 15 # # System monitors -- don't monitor the system useless. # * * .*top * 15 15 15 * * .*xosview.* * 15 15 15 * * .*xps * 15 15 15 * * .*qps * 15 15 15 * * .*ktop * 15 15 15 * * .*gtop * 15 15 15
