Sunday, July 11, 2010

Limit the cpu usage of a process

we can use the cpulimit command to limit cpu usage of any process or application. you can limit a certain running application , either by its name or by it's pid

ex:-
cpulimit -e vlc -l 20
cpulimit -p 5319 -l 40


see:-
http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-limit-cpu-usage-of-a-process-with-cpulimit-debian-ubuntu
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=992706

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