On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Trent W. Buck wrote:

> Carl Turney <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > I never found a way to "throttle down" a process to ease demand on the CPU.
>
> nice ionice -c3 thunderbird
>
> Set the CPU governor(s) to ondemand or conservative,
> and set "don't speed up for niced loads".
>
> Untested; YMMV &c.

Look at /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device?/cur_state
max_state, etc too.

Some of the cooling devices are CPU governors that insert a fake idle
process at various percentages of 100% "CPU".  Ie, they steal cycles from
a process that is trying to hog the CPU, but don't heat the processor in
the process[1]  (some turn on more fans, or maybe make higher sleep
states).

[1] World record for different meanings of process in a sentence?



-- 
Tim Connors
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