Using renice and taskset to manage process priority and CPU affinity with Linux OEL 6.4


Using renice and taskset to manage process priority and CPU affinity with Linux OEL 6.4

Table of Contents

Overview

Process NICE priority values range from -20 to 19. ( see top NI column )
NI is the nice value, which is a user-space concept. PR is the process’s actual priority, as viewed by the Linux kernel.

For normal processes, the kernel priority is simply +20 from the nice value. Thus a process with the neutral nice value of zero has a kernel priority of 20. This offset-by-20 is done so that a process with a nice value of -20, the highest priority nice value, receives a kernel priority of zero. Lower numeric values equal higher scheduling priority.
For realtime processes, the kernel priority is the process’s real-time priority, but the PR column will simply print RT.

A process with the nice value of -20 is considered to be on top of the priority. And a process with nice value of 19 is considered to be low on the priority list.Using renice and taskset to manager a Linux process

 

Using renice and taskset to manage a Linux process

Display CPU Affinity for LGWR process and change CPU affinity to CPU 5

$ ps -elf | egrep 'NI|ora_lgwr' |  grep -v grep
F S UID        PID  PPID  C PRI  NI ADDR SZ WCHAN  STIME TTY          TIME CMD
0 S oracle    5825     1  0  60 -20 - 394456 semtim 13:25 ?       00:00:24 ora_lgwr_grac41

$ taskset -pc 5 5825
pid 5825's current affinity list: 0-7
pid 5825's new affinity list: 5

Monitor CPU affinity with top 
# top -H -p 5825 [  --> Press f --> Press j to add CPU affinity col ]
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  P COMMAND                                                              
 5825 oracle    20   0 1540m  32m  28m S  0.0  0.8   0:24.62 5 oracle             
--> P shows the CPU affinity which is 5 !

Compile a load program and and set affinity to CPU 5 during program start 
$ cc sq.c -o sq -lm
$ taskset -c 5 sq
$ sp
PID: 15949

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  P COMMAND                                                              
15949 oracle    20   0  6544  312  244 R 73.7  0.0   1:50.17 5 sq                                                                   
 5825 oracle    20   0 1540m  32m  28m S  0.0  0.8   0:25.10 5 oracle     

Increase the priority of a process and monitor this process
# renice -15 15949

# top -H -p 15949 [  --> Press f --> Press j to add CPU affinity col ]
Cpu(s):  9.5%us,  3.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 87.2%id,  0.1%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.2%si,  0.0%st

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  P COMMAND                                                              
15949 oracle     5 -15  6544  308  244 R 70.9  0.0  38:43.36 5 sq                                                                   
 5825 oracle    20   0 1540m  33m  29m S  0.0  0.8   1:20.49 5 oracle


Article Number: 663
Posted: Mon, Feb 17, 2020 12:24 PM
Last Updated: Mon, Feb 17, 2020 12:24 PM

Online URL: http://kb.ictbanking.net/article.php?id=663