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I'm using cpulimit in a Bash script to run a certain command (ffmpeg) with a limited CPU usage, but I want to know if the command fails. But when the command(ffmpeg) fails with any error, cpulimit ...
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In Linux kernel cgroup v2’s CFS scheduler, how is cpu.stat throttled_usec accounted when a cgroup with multiple threads gets throttled during a single quota period? Specifically, is throttled_usec ...
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I’d rather not fry the living crap out of my CPU. The hashcat program uses a lot of CPU and GPU. I know, the simple solutions people recommend online, such as using tools to limit cpu usage, such as ...
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At the moment I do the following: When I see that the system load of my Ubuntu server is high, I get the PIDs of specific currently running background processes and start cpulimit with the PID. When ...
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I'm running a Chrome instance on a NAT VPS. Being a NAT VPS it has some restrictions such not not allowing a 15min average load greater than 1. However, just starting and going to a few webpages ...
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I have installed clamav and cpulimit. I want to clamscan all directories in /home which are not owned by root 1 by 1 with a cpu limit of 70%. I use the below command to do that in centos and almalinux:...
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I tried to put memory limit on programs, by using their desktop shortcuts in order to apply the same limit for their child process too. I found that "Web Content" is a separate process in ...
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In our company, we use a headless Linux machine as development machine. However, sometimes users use up all resources (CPU, RAM) on that machine, which influences the work of others. Hence, we want to ...
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Cgroups allow artificially limiting CPU time available to a process using cpu.cfs_quota_us and cpu.cfs_period_us parameters. This however results in a discrepancy when the program monitors its CPU ...
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Due to its high CPU usage i want to limit Chromium web browser by cpulimit and use terminal to run: cpulimit -l 30 -- chromium --incognito but it does not limit CPU usage as expected (i.e. to maximum ...
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[root@XYZ ~]# sudo dnf install cpulimit Last metadata expiration check: 0:17:21 ago on Tue 13 Oct 2020 11:24:25 AM PDT. No match for argument: cpulimit Error: Unable to find a match: cpulimit [root@...
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I have a process doing some computation the whole time. It causes my system's CPU to heat up and the fan to spin faster. I want this process to run, but with a low priority. I don't want my system to ...
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I have a buggy program which uses 100% CPU even when it's idle. Since fixing it isn't practical at the moment, I'd like to just limit it to be able to use no more than 10% CPU. However no matter ...
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There's nice and renice to lower priority of a process, cpulimit to lets say 30% maximum, taskset to limit to 1 core, ionice. Each of these tools has a different syntax. Specifically cpulimit seems ...
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I found that I can help find scientific results using BOINC. As I tried, it used so much cpu or memory that my desktop hanged. Is there a way to tell Ubuntu that run BOINC but use at most, say 20% of ...
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