you On Saturday, 22 September 2012 05:14:15 UTC+5:30, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 20Sep2012 12:53, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > | On 9/20/2012 12:46 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > > | > On 9/20/2012 11:12 AM, Rolando Cañer Roblejo wrote: > > | >> Is it possible for me to put a limit in the amount of processor usage (% > > | >> CPU) that my current python script is using? Is there any module useful > > | >> for this task? I saw Resource module but I think it is not the module I > > | >> am looking for. Some people recommend to use nice and cpulimit unix > > | >> tools, but those are external to python and I prefer a python solution. > > | >> I am working with Linux (Ubuntu 10.04). > > | > > > | > Call the external tools with subprocess.open. > > | > > | I meant to end that with ? as I don't know how easy it is to get the > > | external id of the calling process that is to be limited. I presume that > > | can be done by first calling ps (with subprocess) and searching the > > | piped-back output. > > > > If you're limiting yourself, os.getpid(). > > -- > > Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
You could use os.times to compute the CPU usage and then stop the process when that happens and then start it after some time using signals. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
