The boinc manager sets the OS priority of all clients to be 19 (OS minimum priority).

Can this be set to a higher priority rather than having to use "renice" after the client has started?

This is to give boinc a higher share of the CPU time against another long term background task.

Thanks,
Martin

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OK... Answering for myself, a 'quick kludge' fix is to run the following script as root from cron every 15 mins or so:

#!/bin/bash
user='Whatever_User_Name_for_boinc'

ps -u $user -o pid,nice,cmd h |\\
grep '  19 ' |\\
grep -v 'mprime' |\\
(
        while read pslist
        do
                echo -e "\\n$(date -R): Renicing '$pslist'\\n"
                rnid="${pslist%%  *}"
                renice 5 -p $rnid
        done
)

(Note that there should be a double space after the double "%". How do you force that to show in these forums?!)

Have fun,
Martin

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For anyone interested, here's an updated version that correctly handles all tasks in a process thread. For example as you get with Einstein.

#!/bin/bash

user='Whatever user'

ps -u $user -o tid,nice,cmd h H |\\
grep '  19 ' |\\
grep -v 'mprime' |\\
(
        while read pslist
        do
                echo -e "\\n$(date -R): Renicing '$pslist'\\n"
                rnid="${pslist%%  *}"
                renice 5 -p $rnid
        done
)

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