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Re: Limit a process's CPU usage?



Fredag den 28. marts 2003 12:26 skrev Joerg Johannes:
> Hi List
>
> I'm running seti@home on my laptop, but the near 100% CPU usage results in
> my processor fan constatly being on. Is there a way on telling seti@home to
> use the CPU at no more than, say 30%?
> I have already set it to nice 19, but this affects only the priority, so
> that an other process can take over the CPU more easily, this does not
> reduce CPU load.

I asked for something like this on lkml a while ago. Have a look at:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0211.3/0606.html
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0211.3/0745.html
-- 
/frederik



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