[Ilugc] [Tip] Limit the CPU usage of a certain application in Linux

[anu nivas]

Hello,
Does limiting CPU usage mean the time taken by the application to use the
CPU?Would'nt limiting usage slow down the application?
Anupama

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:59 PM, jemenisuresh <jemenisuresh at gmail.com>wrote:

> Limit the CPU usage of a certain application in Linux
>
> You can do this by installing cpulimit. You can limit a certain
> running application either by name or by process ID:
>
> cpulimit -e firefox -l 30
>
> This won’t let Firefox go beyond a 30% CPU usage limit.
> If you’d rather go by process, you can do it like this:
>
> cpulimit -p 3493 -l 40
>
>
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