Re: cpulimit

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:16:56AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote:
> The problem is that I'm using a laptop but somehow (I don't know
> exactly why) recently when I run some cpu-intensive and time consuming
> programs it caused the cpu too hot and an automatic shutdown is
> resulted.  I want to keep the CPU usage low for those programs to
> avoid the forced shutdown.
> 
> In the mean while I'm also looking for an external CPU cooler. :)

What CPU is it?

  lsmod | grep cpufreq

An external CPU cooler is not that expensive, but not a real solution
either.

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