[cfarm-users] Compile Farm acceptable usage---low priority batch jobs

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

On 1/4/25 21:14, Segher Boessenkool via cfarm-users wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 10:25:11PM +0000, mirabilos via cfarm-users wrote:
>> In general I’d ask people who run longer-term jobs to nice(1)
>> them, and people who do builds that aren’t over in a handful
>> of minutes to limit parallelisation, so that those of us who
>> do quick-shot interactive testing of things don’t get delayed
>> too much. In my experience, though, resource usage hasn’t been
>> high enough to seriously hamper testing yet so I guess people
>> already do that anyway (thank you).
> It takes a *lot* of nudging to get people to behave even a little bit
> social, though.

Well, for the example of running large jobs with nice(1), perhaps adding 
that to the GCC wiki page "Usage" section might be a good first step?

It currently mentions ulimit, disk space, not having automated jobs use 
more than half of the CPUs, and coordinating cron jobs if you find that 
someone else is running one at the same time, but not using nice(1).


-- Jacob