cpulimit problem

[pratiklinu]

Dear All
I have installed cpulimit tar archive software on my suse linux Desktop

I can limit any process upto a max cpu percentage uses with its pid with below command.
# cpulimit -p <pid> -l <percentage>
It is working i have tested.

But when i run this command for a executable script with following command
# cpulinit -e /<path with script file> -l <percentage>
it shows message "Warning: no target process found. Waiting for it." though that
script is running at that time.what could be the issuse.How can i rectify that problem
please help.

[gogalthorp]

Scripts are interpreted by the shell program and thus are not really separate processes. If you put an & at the end of the command it should be run in a separate thread and maybe that would allow the limits to work.

[D-cat]

Or maybe doing something like -e /bin/bash /path/to/script ?

The idea would be to make the limits effective for the shell running the script. I however have no idea that the limits would be inherited by any child processes. I don't know that this program accepts multiple arguements for -e? Just an idea.