On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:34:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Description : limits the cpu usage of a process > > cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the cpu usage of a > > process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to > > control batch jobs, when you don't want then to eat too much cpu. It does > > not > > act on the nice value or other priority stuff, but on the real cpu usage. > I thought nice was supposed to handle these kinds of things, and > that a busy CPU is a *good* thing.
On an otherwise idle box even a process (re-)niced to 19 uses all the CPU. That might be desirable often but in other cases (e.g. when CPU temperature is an issue) you might still want to say "assign this process only xy% of CPU resources". gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Django Reinhardt: Brazil
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