Hello, Does limiting CPU usage mean the time taken by the application to use the CPU?Would'nt limiting usage slow down the application? Anupama
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:59 PM, jemenisuresh <[email protected]>wrote: > Limit the CPU usage of a certain application in Linux > > You can do this by installing cpulimit. You can limit a certain > running application either by name or by process ID: > > cpulimit -e firefox -l 30 > > This won’t let Firefox go beyond a 30% CPU usage limit. > If you’d rather go by process, you can do it like this: > > cpulimit -p 3493 -l 40 > > > -- > Regards, > Tha.Suresh > > Kanchi Linux User Group Rocks !!!! > http://kanchilug.wordpress.com > > My experiences with Linux are here, > http://thasulinux.wordpress.com > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
