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Does anyone know of an easy way to set the niceness value of a Process or Pool when it is created in multiprocessing?

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Try importing the ctypes module and looking for pthread_schedparam() or SetThreadPriority() (Linux / Windows).

Pestilence
+1  A: 
os.nice(increment)
Add increment to the process’s “niceness”. Return the new niceness. Availability: Unix.

From http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.nice

Is there a reason you can't call this in the child process?

Richo
Thanks. This looks like it will work. I'll have to try it in a bit when I have access to my code.
myurko
It worked! Thanks.
myurko