Re: cpu amount

[Hans Insulander <hin@stacken.kth.se>]

Rafael Coninck Teigao <rafael@SafeCore.NET> writes:

> Hi, ppl.
>     Is there anyway to limit the amount of CPU that a process uses? Say
> I want to always let my CPU 20% idle, is there a way to a make be
> limited?

Why on earth would you want that?

And if you really do, why not by a 20% slower cpu? That'll probably save
you a lot of money...


To be a bit serious, it seems you could lower the priority of the
offending process or user. Unix was not designed for this kind of stuff.

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