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Re: Limit a process's CPU usage?



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On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:50:00PM +0100, Mark Janssen wrote:
> Possible solution... run a process that keeps the cpu occupied with
> doing nothing... and give that a low, but higher then seti, priority...

Nope, won't work.  Windows does this, which is why Windows gets such
craptastic battery life compared to Linux.

> Or: Suspend the seti process every 10 seconds... turning it on 15
> seconds later... (shellscript should be possible)

You'll find performance will lag slightly every time seti kicks in.
Let the scheduler do it's job, that's what it's there for.

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