On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Craig Sanders <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 10:07:59AM +1100, Carl Turney wrote:
> > I never found a way to "throttle down" a process to ease demand on the
> > CPU.
> 
> the 'renice' command can be used to change the priority of a process.
> 
> e.g. to make a process use only 'idle' cpu time, you need to find its
> process id (PID) and then:
> 
>     renice -n 19 $PID

That will work if the issue is multiple processes competing for CPU time.

But for Carl's case of a single process using 100% CPU time and overheating 
the machine it won't work.

kill -stop will suspend a process and kill -cont will continue it.  It 
wouldn't be difficult to write a script that runs kill -stop and kill -cont in 
a loop.

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