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# weight_lowering_* session settings

> ClickHouse session settings in the weight_lowering_* generated group.

export const VersionHistory = ({rows = []}) => {
  if (rows.length === 0) {
    return null;
  }
  const headers = ["Version", "Default value", "Comment"];
  const border = "1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.3)";
  const cell = {
    border,
    padding: "0.25rem 0.5rem",
    textAlign: "start",
    verticalAlign: "top"
  };
  return <details className="not-prose" style={{
    border,
    borderRadius: "0.5rem",
    margin: "0.5rem 0",
    padding: "0.5rem 0.75rem",
    fontSize: "0.8125rem",
    lineHeight: "1.125rem"
  }}>
      <summary style={{
    cursor: "pointer",
    fontWeight: 600,
    opacity: 0.72
  }}>
        Version history
      </summary>
      <table style={{
    borderCollapse: "collapse",
    width: "100%",
    margin: "0.5rem 0 0"
  }}>
        <thead>
          <tr>
            {headers.map(header => <th key={header} style={{
    ...cell,
    fontWeight: 600,
    opacity: 0.72
  }}>
                {header}
              </th>)}
          </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          {rows.map((row, row_index) => <tr key={row.id ?? row_index}>
              {(row.items ?? []).map((item, item_index) => <td key={item_index} style={{
    ...cell,
    overflowWrap: "anywhere"
  }}>
                  {item?.label}
                </td>)}
            </tr>)}
        </tbody>
      </table>
    </details>;
};

export const SettingsInfoBlock = ({type, default_value, changeable_without_restart}) => {
  return <div className="not-prose" style={{
    display: "flex",
    flexWrap: "wrap",
    alignItems: "baseline",
    columnGap: "0.5rem",
    rowGap: "0.125rem",
    margin: "0.375rem 0",
    fontSize: "0.8125rem",
    lineHeight: "1.125rem"
  }}>
      <div style={{
    fontWeight: 600,
    opacity: 0.72
  }}>Type</div>
      <div style={{
    overflowWrap: "anywhere"
  }}>{type}</div>
      <div style={{
    fontWeight: 600,
    opacity: 0.72,
    marginInlineStart: "0.5rem"
  }}>Default</div>
      <div style={{
    overflowWrap: "anywhere"
  }}>{default_value}</div>
      {changeable_without_restart && <div style={{
    fontWeight: 600,
    opacity: 0.72,
    marginInlineStart: "0.5rem"
  }}>
          Changeable without restart
        </div>}
      {changeable_without_restart && <div style={{
    overflowWrap: "anywhere"
  }}>
          {changeable_without_restart}
        </div>}
    </div>;
};

These settings are available in [system.settings](/reference/system-tables/settings) and are autogenerated from [source](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/blob/master/src/Core/Settings.cpp).

<h2 id="weight_lowering_age_seconds">
  weight\_lowering\_age\_seconds
</h2>

<SettingsInfoBlock type="Double" default_value="0" />

<VersionHistory rows={[{"id": "row-1","items": [{"label": "26.10"},{"label": "0"},{"label": "New query setting: wall-clock age threshold after which a query's weight is lowered in the `fair` workload scheduler."}]}]} />

For the `fair` workload scheduler: once the query has been running (wall-clock) for this many seconds, its weight is lowered by `weight_lowering_factor`. `0` (or any negative value) disables the age threshold.

<h2 id="weight_lowering_cpu_seconds">
  weight\_lowering\_cpu\_seconds
</h2>

<SettingsInfoBlock type="Double" default_value="0" />

<VersionHistory rows={[{"id": "row-1","items": [{"label": "26.10"},{"label": "0"},{"label": "New query setting: attained CPU-seconds threshold after which a query's weight is lowered in the `fair` workload scheduler."}]}]} />

For the `fair` workload scheduler: once the query has attained this many CPU-seconds, its weight is lowered by `weight_lowering_factor`. Applies to CPU resources. `0` (or any negative value) disables the CPU threshold. Attained CPU is the granted scheduler service, charged when a request is granted rather than as CPU is spent, so it leads actual consumption by at most one quantum (`cpu_slot_quantum_ns`) per active slot. This is only meaningful with CPU slot preemption (`cpu_slot_preemption = 1`, the default); without preemption CPU slots carry a fixed per-slot cost rather than real CPU time, so this threshold — like the other `fair` CPU settings — no longer reflects actual CPU consumption.

<h2 id="weight_lowering_factor">
  weight\_lowering\_factor
</h2>

<SettingsInfoBlock type="Double" default_value="1" />

<VersionHistory rows={[{"id": "row-1","items": [{"label": "26.10"},{"label": "1"},{"label": "New query setting: factor applied to a query's weight once it crosses a weight-lowering threshold in the `fair` workload scheduler."}]}]} />

For the `fair` workload scheduler: once the query crosses any of the `weight_lowering_*` thresholds below, its effective weight is multiplied by this factor once (values in (0, 1) lower the weight, biasing scheduling toward shorter/newer queries). The thresholds do not combine — the first one to trip applies the full lowering. `1.0` disables lowering. The value is clamped to the range `[0, 1]`, so the factor can only ever lower a query's weight, never raise it.

<h2 id="weight_lowering_io_bytes">
  weight\_lowering\_io\_bytes
</h2>

<SettingsInfoBlock type="Double" default_value="0" />

<VersionHistory rows={[{"id": "row-1","items": [{"label": "26.10"},{"label": "0"},{"label": "New query setting: attained IO-bytes threshold after which a query's weight is lowered in the `fair` workload scheduler."}]}]} />

For the `fair` workload scheduler: once the query has attained this many bytes of IO, its weight is lowered by `weight_lowering_factor`. Applies to IO resources. `0` (or any negative value) disables the IO threshold.