R-sig-hpc'ers: We recently ran into an issue on our Windows application server where a researcher spawned more workers than cores via parallel backend + a foreach job, and, of course, this made the server more or less unusable to anyone else while they were running. We were able to solve this by manually changing the priority on the spawned processes to low priority, but this brought up a question -- is there a way to set the spawned processes to low priority on Windows (or renice them on linux/pc) from within R? Ideally this would be when the parallel cluster is launched. Thoughts? --j
parallel and "nicing" on Windows
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