On 2023-04-08 11:31:44 -0400, songbird wrote: > Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > Wouldn't it be better to limit the amount of cputime that > > the hogging application is using? > > > > Google suggests that "nice" or "cpulimit" might do that. > > nice didn't do it. "nice -n 19" didn't make any change.
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