Hi, Is there a program which will automatically "nice" processes which take up too much resources? I am asking this due to the following problem. At the university, we have supercomputing facility. There are interactive nodes and there are nodes to which you submit jobs. One is not supposed to run programs in the interactive nodes. Interactive nodes is for editing code and basically do stuff, which do not consume processor resources a lot. But users, for testing their code, will run programs for a short time. Some of these programs are parallel ones, which basically consume all the resources available in the interactive node (Memory, processors etc) for Say 5-10 minutes. During this time, other users who are using that machine for editing etc, will find the machine non-responsive. Is there any program which will find such situation and nice those parallel/high resource consuming jobs, so that otherpeople using this machine will not find it non-responsive. There are Linux machines (Itanium-2 and Pentium) and other machies in the institute. I hope I am clear in my question. Thanks for the help Sreekumar _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list