cpulimit YAIT (Yet Another Impressive Tool) Thursday Apr 2 11:26:47 2020 ------------------------------ One of the truly impressive tools I discovered this week is cpulimit. It allows you to limit how much cpu percentage a process can use. It is specially indicated when running cpu intensive applications. In my case it is 'ffmpeg'. I use 'ffmpeg' on a daily basis to convert my .avi videos to .mp4. I often run the script at night with cron.daily but the problem arises when I need to run it during the day. Here comes cpulimit to the rescue: $ cpulimit -e ffmpeg -l 800 -b Here is a quick explanation: -e ffmpeg (the process to limit) -l 800 (I have 16 cores: 800 = 50%) -b Run cpulimit in the background to free the terminal Really impressive (and handy) ______________________________________________________________________ Gophered by Gophernicus/1.6 on NetBSD/amd64 9.1