On Jan 14, 2008 11:52 AM, Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way of limiting the amount of CPU given to a particular > process or process group? For example, I would want the build of the > qt4 port to use a maximum of 25% of the available CPU, leaving the CPU > 75% idle if nothing else is happening on the machine. > > I know about 'nice', but it doesn't fulfil the criteria that the > machine is left otherwise idle if nothing else runs on it. > > I don't have a real reason for why I would want to do this, I'm mainly > curious as to if it's possible. > > Regards, > Andreas > > -- > Andreas Kahari > Somewhere in the general Cambridge area, UK > >
I have never done this myself, but I believe this is possible by creating a login class in /etc/login.conf and set the cputime option. See login.conf(5) for a better description.
