Re: Limit a process's CPU usage?
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:26:54 +0100
Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.
This would be an *ugly* hack.
A cron job which runs every minute to:
kill the seti process
sleep for 40 seconds
start the seti process
should do something like what you want.
Kevin
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