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This thorn tries to renice all processes of Cactus to a given nice level.
To renice a process means to change its nice level after the start. The nice level is a way to control the priority of processes for cpu power. It is always a good idea to give cpu-intensive jobs (like Cactus runs) a low priority if you are using desktop machines, especially if other people are using them too.

The nice level has a range of $-20$ to $19$. A higher number means less priority. Mostly, normal processes will get $0$ and only the superuser (root) can use negative values. Also only root can lower the nice level of a process, so if you nice your Cactus Run to 19, you cannot renice it later to an lower nice-level. The nice level of single processes can be controled by the system commands $nice$ and/or $renice$. In the case of Cactus and Lamd this is not possible at startup. Therefore this thorn will set the nice level of your processes at CCTK_PARAMCHECK (in the beginning of the calculation).
This thorn has only one parameter:

  CCTK_INT Nice_nice

which is by default 19.
Note to developers:
This thorn uses $getpriority()$ and $setpriority()$ and therefore needs the includes $<$sys/time.h$>$, $<$errno.h$>$ and $<$sys/resource.h$>$. If these are not provided on some platform, please tell me.

2 Parameters

3 Interfaces

General

Implements:

nice

4 Schedule

This section lists all the variables which are assigned storage by thorn CactusUtils/Nice. Storage can either last for the duration of the run (Always means that if this thorn is activated storage will be assigned, Conditional means that if this thorn is activated storage will be assigned for the duration of the run if some condition is met), or can be turned on for the duration of a schedule function.

Storage

NONE

Scheduled Functions

CCTK_STARTUP

  nice_renice

  renice the process