Questions tagged [scheduling]
A technique for scheduling tasks to be run at a specific time or on a specific event.
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Stop systemd-run after a set time
My question is similar to Start/stop a systemd.service at specific times, but deals with one-off processes scheduled with systemd-run rather than systemd timer files. I want to record fm transmissions ...
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How do I start a shell the way all the processes ran from within it and processes they run would have low priority?
I'd like to start a long, complex CPU and IO heavy command-line job to be done in background while I'm using the PC. It will hinder responsiveness of the system if I run it with normal priority. How ...
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CRON Job Schedule issues
I want to schedule a job for 3rd Friday of every month, 1 AM .
I checked few cron entry websites for that didn't work for me.
I was also checking for some awk options for this so far not successful ...
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Linux task state different in /proc/pid/stat compared to Ftrace output of sched events
I'm trying to trace the flow of a piece of code just to understand the points where the tasks go into D/S/R states (uninterruptible/interruptible/running). I do understand the meaning of each state, ...
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Deterministic thread cancelation
Is there a way to deterministicly cancel threads (Light-weight process) in linux. Let say I want to cancel a thread because it is possible in an infinite loop or my scheduler requires it. How would ...
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Why a long type memory is reserved to nice value in the PCB in Linux?
All right, my question is not sufficiently specific. I've not mentioned the kernel version, the distribution and other potentially interesting things. But, anyway... these are important but doesn't ...
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VRUNTIME variable maximum value in minutes / hours (CFS Scheduler)
VRUNTIME is described as the variable in the sched_entity structure that tracks time (nanoseconds).
is this a 64 bit value ? If so what is the maximum time in minutes / hours this variable can hold.
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When are audio threads preempted?
In audio threads, I've been told it's good style to not use syscalls like e.g. printf() because they give control back to the kernel, which can then decide to continue with another thread, which means ...
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reducing scheduling time of a single process
I have a process that is mining a private blockchain and it takes 100% of the CPU. I don't need that much computing power for this, so in order to reduce my energy bill I need to configure this ...
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How to make a system suspend and resume on schedule?
I have a Linux server that's only needed at workdays in work hours.
There's no point having it powered on all the time.
How can I make a Linux system suspend and resume on set times and days without ...
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How to test two identical process with different scheduling policy and their cpu usage
what would be the best approach to compare usage of the processor (in %) for two identical processes with different scheduling policy in for example one-minute time frame.
I'm pretty new to the linux ...
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What timezone does the `at` command use?
I've searched in the man pages for the at command there are no mentions of timezone or tz. There is this:
The exact definition of the time specification can be found in /usr/share/doc/at-3.1.10/...
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How does the kernel assign the nice value to a process after it has been executed?
The Linux kernel implements two separate priority ranges. The first is the nice value, a number from –20 to +19 with a default of 0.
Nice values are the standard priority range used in all Unix ...
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Is it possible to schedule an anacron single line command execution instead of sourcing a file?
Everywhere on the internet, in articles or tutorials (in the searching of "schedule an anacron command"), I find a format such as the following:
@daily 15 rsync.daily /bin/bash /home/steven/...
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Run and close a file every few minutes
I need to play an audio file and after 3 minutes close it, then all over again. play it 3 minutes and close it.
Currently I'm using a cron job to open the file in VLC and close it, but it's not good ...
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How to set the SCHED_RR time slice or time quantum per process / thread?
The time slice (also called time quantum) for threads with SCHED_RR policy can, according to the sched_rr_get_interval man page be obtained using
int sched_rr_get_interval(pid_t pid, struct timespec *...
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Realtime, SCHED_FIFO, CPU_SET()
I'm trying to assign two real time processes to two cpus(one each). I'm using SCHED_FIFO scheduling policy.
I'm doing the following things:
adding "quiet splash isolcpus = 6,7" at ...
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Slurm like alternative for localhost
I have resources (e.g. GPU) I can only use once at a time. When performing experiments I always need to know on time of a batch files creation, what experiments I want to execute in the future. But I ...
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rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU + watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s
Being unable to ssh into a machine I connected it to a monitor and found the following:
The machine is running Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS and is a first generation 8 core Ryzen 1700. I've restarted the ...
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Determine average and maximum execution time of a task by using ftrace/perf
I've gathered some traces containing scheduling events ('sched:*') by using ftrace and perf record. By analyzing the results many of my questions could already be answered.
However, I was wondering ...
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How can I visualize the scheduling domains on Linux?
It seems current versions of Linux use scheduling domains to distribute processes between CPUs, hyperthreads, NUMA nodes, etc.
Say I wanted to visualize the domains that exist on a system, and some ...
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ext4 jbd2 and I/O priority
I want to delete a huge directory with over 6 million files across over 4000 directories, totaling about 26GB of data. As I knew this was going to take a while I used ionice to set the I/O priority ...
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Range of values of virtual runtime in CFS scheduler
I am trying to understand the working of the Linux CFS scheduler using kernel version 4.19.2.
As mentioned in the documentation, it does not use timeslices in the traditional way but uses the concept ...
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What's the advantage of mere Ansible on mere shell-scripting if one doesn't use communally-maintained Ansible-Galaxy roles? [closed]
I establish a LAMP with a few extras on a remote Debian machine with a similar shell (Bash) script:
#/bin/bash
apt update -y
apt upgrade ufw sshguard unattended-upgrades wget curl git zip unzip tree ...
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change a value in a file
I have a configuration file that some of its lines is like below:
# Mandatory: no
# Range: 0-5
# Default:
DebugLevel=3
I want to change the 3 at DebugLevel to 5 at 2 AM then after for example 2 ...
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ionice vs nice for mysqlimport
I am trying to import a huge .sql file into a mysql server.
What (if any) is a best option to speed up the process (all other parameters being equal)
reducing the process niceness to -20?
setting ...
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Is it possible have a deterministic run of linux process inside docker?
Imagine that I have a linux program that does some network IO. Execution of the program is not deterministic: it gonna produce different results depending on how it's threads are scheduled, what ...
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What's the process scheduler in Linux?
I read wikipedia about process scheduler:
The process scheduler is a part of the operating system that decides which process runs at a certain point in time.
I don't really understand what that ...
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Restrict time of day for anacron jobs in Linux Mint
I'd like to restrict the time of day the jobs set in anacrontab are allowed to run.
I can find in man pages online info about START_HOURS_RANGE which is supposed to do precisely that. For example ...
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Thread scheduling behavior between steps of GDB compared to non-stepped execution
The GDB manual states that when using all-stop mode for debugging a multithreaded application, it is not possible to advance every thread in lock-step by exactly one statement. This makes sense since ...
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How to schedule to run testng.xml file on terminal on linux environment?
I have scripted a Selenium automation testcase. I have generated the testng.xml file which should be executed on the linux terminal at a particular time of my need. Say I want to schdule to execute ...
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How to schedule a command to execute in every 2 hours?
I want to run a small monitoring jar file every 2 hours in my ubuntu machine.
java -jar mymonitoringtool.jar
I don't know how to set it up.
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Why is there no choice for cooperative scheduling?
Operating System Concepts says
CPU-scheduling decisions may take place under the following four
circum- stances:
When a process switches from the running state to the waiting state (for ...
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Incorrect Top? or manpage?
According to top's manpage:
16. PR -- Priority
The scheduling priority of the task. If you see `rt' in this
field, it means the task is running under real time scheduling priority.
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FCFS disk scheduling [closed]
I want to find head movement through Disk Scheduling first come first serve algorithm
queue = 98, 183, 37, 122, 14, 124, 65, 67
head start at 53
I have confused because this same quotation two book ...
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/proc/PID/sched measure units
Does anyone know what are the measurement units for the metrics in /proc/<PID>/sched file in Linux?
cat /proc/1277/sched
flush-202:32 (1277, #threads: 1)
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Is it recommended to use param.sched_priority in Linux FIFO during thread creation?
In my embedded device I absorb strange behaviour with the protocol we use, sometimes it takes a while to send the data via serial device using FIFO.
My suspicion is Linux is not real-time OS and why ...
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Meaning of parameter “kernel.sched_min_granularity_ns” in RHEL6/RHEL7
While studying the kernel behaviour from RHEL6 to RHEL7, we came across an explanation on RHEL6 kernel parameters:
> kernel.sched_min_granularity_ns
sched_min_granularity_ns is the initial ...
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How does the kernel scheduler know a timeslice has passed?
In my previous question How does the kernel scheduler know how to pre-empt a process? I was given an answer to how pre-emption occurs.
Now I am wondering, how does the kernel scheduler know that a ...
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How does the kernel scheduler know how to pre-empt a process?
As far as I understand, the kernel is not a process, but rather a set of handlers that can be invoked from the runtime of another progress (or by the kernel itself via a timer or something similar?)
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How to keep Linux kworker threads alive?
I'm experiencing some data loss on a USB-to-serial adapter on a Raspberry Pi running at a (relatively) high data rate. I believe most of the work is carried out by kernel threads:
2569 root 20 ...
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Giving users scheduling privileges
I have some code which uses sched_setscheduler from sched.h
sched_param sched;
sched.sched_priority = 70;
sched_setscheduler(getpid(), SCHED_FIFO, &sched);
However, this function will fail ...
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Linux (kernel 3.x and 4.x) Pthread and general process scheduling algorithms
I was wondering if both scheduling (contention) scopes (SYSTEM and PROCESS) are used in the Linux kernel scheduling logic. POSIX supports PROCESS scope pthreads (MXN model) and SYSTEM scope pthreads (...
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CFS and real-time policies
I'm trying to implement a real-time algorithm in Linux.
I've studied the linux Real-Time policies : sched_rr, sched_fifo.
Than i go deeper and i found the Completely Fair Scheduler.
I deduced that ...
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Does Linux 3.10 CFS have “timeslices”?
Does Linux 3.10 CFS have "timeslices"?
I am confused, because sched-design-CFS.txt clearly states:
CFS uses nanosecond granularity accounting and does not rely on any jiffies or
other HZ detail. ...
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How to schedule activation/termination of KVM/QEMU virtual mahines?
I run an IPv4 server in a Fedora virtual machine. This server hosts a git service for a group of developers and is open to the internet. As a consequence, it is confronted to hacking attempts (mainly ...
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How to check a process is running in which core? [duplicate]
I have a very computationally intensive job(single threaded) running in my system, and htop is showing one of the core is ~100% utilized. Obviously, the job is scheduled to this core. But, I am ...
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During what kinds of operations is a process considered for the 'load average'?
In general, I'm trying to understand the numbers displayed by uptime (and numerous oder commands):
$ uptime
13:40:52 up 18 days, 2:10, 8 users, load average: 0.20, 0.30, 0.64
Here, my system's ...
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Kubuntu 18.04, cron task does not load @reboot
I am running Kubuntu 18.04, and have a simple script to reset the plasmashell every time after suspend/lockscreen since there's a known bug that corrupts folder/file names upon returning from suspend.
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Set usb flash drive as non rotational drive
I'm trying to optimize the IO schedulers and to use a proper scheduler for rotational and for non rotational drives (different).
When I run:
cat /sys/block/sd*/queue/rotational
I get:
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