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Is there any way to limit the CPU usage of a determined process... I'm running certains encoders all the day in a ver PowerPC 200mhz and I'm not in hurry...so ...
  1. 04-09-2006 #1
    neousr
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    Lightbulb Limit CPU usage for a process...

    Is there any way to limit the CPU usage of a determined process... I'm running certains encoders all the day in a ver PowerPC 200mhz and I'm not in hurry...so I would like to limit the CPU usage to the 50% to avoid overheating and ageing problems...
    nice is not useful because it's the only process running so even setting the nice level to 19, the process will use 100% of the process...

    ulimits doesn't apply in this case, the cpu usage limit controlled by ulimits is referred to time...

    So... at the very first glance I thought it was gonna to be easy... but I'm realising there is no such way to limit or control the maximum CPU usage for a process....
    Does anyone have a clues? Thanks...
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    If you're just trying to go easy on your CPU, you might look into a frequency daemon, provided your CPU supports frequency stepping.
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    mmm no, I just want to limit a very specific process... I seemed so simple to me... but there is no way to do that..

    Thanks anyway
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  4. 08-19-2006 #4
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    apt-get install cpulimit

    man cpulimit

    bye
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