-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 gregor herrmann wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:34:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> Description : limits the cpu usage of a process >>> cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the cpu usage of a >>> process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to >>> control batch jobs, when you don't want then to eat too much cpu. It does >>> not >>> act on the nice value or other priority stuff, but on the real cpu usage. >> I thought nice was supposed to handle these kinds of things, and >> that a busy CPU is a *good* thing. > > On an otherwise idle box even a process (re-)niced to 19 uses all the > CPU. That might be desirable often but in other cases (e.g. when > CPU temperature is an issue) you might still want to say "assign this > process only xy% of CPU resources".
Roll-your-own CPU scaling... - -- Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEeh1YS9HxQb37XmcRAhXaAJ46xZtVYGCD+r+ZDG/QAAWsxc8b/QCgxQmM c8e/oKVrca4K2/YeuG44t+Y= =Ij/N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]