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NAME

       /etc/and.conf  -  general  configuration  parameters  for the auto nice
       daemon.

VERSION

       This manual page documents and.conf for and version 1.2.2.

DESCRIPTION

       This is the general configuration file for  and.   It  stores  settings
       like  the default nice level, the renice intervals, the three stages of
       renicing, and the affinity of the priority database, i.e. the weight of
       (user,  group,  command)  when resolving nice levels from the database.
       These settings are described below.

       Comments start with a # in the first column.  Empty lines are  ignored.
       Unlike  with  other  configuration  files, lines cannot be concatenated
       with a backslash. Furthermore, this file is case sensitive.

       and allows for host-specific sections in the configuration file.  These
       work  as  lines of the form on somehost and work as follows: the parser
       determines if the host name (as returned by  gethostname)  matches  the
       extended regular expression that follows the on keyword. If it does, it
       just keeps processing the file as if nothing had happened. If  it  does
       not match, however, everything up to the next on keyword is skipped. So
       if you want to end a  host-specific  section,  you  must  write  on  .*
       (which matches all hosts) to switch back to normal.

       Don’t forget to kill -HUP the auto nice daemon to enable the changes.

SETTINGS

       defaultnice
            The  default nice level. A number between 0 and 19. Jobs for which
            no entry can be found in /etc/and.priorities are reniced  to  this
            level,  regardless  of  the  CPU  time they’ve used so far. If you
            prefer to  renice  unknown  jobs  gradually,  you  can  do  so  by
            supplying  three  asterisks  as  (user,  group,  command) tuple in
            /etc/and.priorities.  The default nice level is 0

       interval
            The default interval between nice checks of the auto nice  daemon,
            in  seconds.  This  value can be overridden by the -i command-line
            option of and.  The default interval is 60 seconds.

       lv1time

       lv2time

       lv3time
            Ranges for the nice levels. Jobs with less  than  lv1time  seconds
            CPU time are not reniced; jobs between lv1time and lv2time seconds
            are reniced to the first  level  in  an.priorities;  jobs  between
            lv2time  and  lv3time  seconds to the second level; jobs with more
            than lv3time seconds are reniced to the third level.  Defaults are
            120 , 1200 , and 3600 seconds.

       minuid, mingid
            Minimum  user  id  and  group  id  to  be considered for renicing.
            Processes whose user id is below minuid are  left  alone,  as  are
            processes with a group id of below mingid.  (Note that even if you
            set minuid to zero, root processes are left alone.)

       affinity
            Strategy for picking the right priority entry for a user/group/job
            triple.  The  strategy  is  a  permutation  of  "cgu",  "c"ommand,
            "g"roup, "u"ser. The order specifies the affinity of the  priority
            lookup method. Suppose you have an entry for all jobs of user foo,
            another entry for all jobs of group bar, and yet another entry for
            the  command  baz.   Furthermore  suppose user foo (who happens to
            belong to group bar ) starts a job named baz -- which entry should
            be  chosen?  This  is what the affinity setting means, for example
            "cug" means an exact match of the command has priority  over  both
            an  exact match of the user and the group. The default affinity is
            "cug", which is probably sensible for most cases, since  it’s  the
            job which takes up CPU time, not the user or group ID.

EXAMPLES

       Default Configuration
            # This is the default configuration:
            defaultnice 0
            interval 60
            lv1time 300
            lv2time 1800
            lv3time 3600
            affinity cug
            minuid 0
            mingid 0

       Default Configuration, with terminals
            # Normal default configuration for all
            defaultnice 0
            interval 60
            lv1time 300
            lv2time 1800
            lv3time 3600
            # Hosts foo, bar, baz are terminals and must
            # be more responsive, so earlier renice.
            on (foo|bar)
            lv1time 120
            lv2time 600
            lv3time 1200
            on .*
            # This is for all hosts again
            affinity cug

       Group-specific Hosts
            defaultnice 0
            interval 60
            lv1time 300
            lv2time 1800
            lv3time 3600
            # Normal affinity for all hosts.
            affinity cug
            # Hosts bar, baz belong to group foo, which
            # is privileged on these hosts, so override
            # affinity. (Note regexp!)
            on ba[rz]
            affinity guc
            on .*
            minuid 500
            mingid 100

FILES

       /etc/and.conf
            General  configuration  file.  Stores  default nice level, default
            interval, the "time zones" and the database lookup affinity.  This
            is what this manual page is about.

SEE ALSO

       and(8), and.priorities(5), kill(1), regex(7), renice(8)

INTERNET

       http://and.sourceforge.net/

AUTHOR

       The  auto  nice  daemon  and  this  manual page were written by Patrick
       Schemitz <schemitz@users.sourceforge.net>