Monitor the CPU usage of applications that we use, it is recommended if you need to maintain a good performance on your system, sometimes in our system we have applications that should not stop working and we need some free resources on your computer for them. Linux can prevent other applications to consume these resources and the applications work properly within a cpu limit. To install in ubuntu: $ sudo apt-get install cpulimit It is in the universe repositories. To install it on any other Linux distribution follow this: $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cpulimit/cpulimit-1.1.tar.gz $ tar-zxf cpulimit * xxx.tar.gz $ cd cpulimit-xxx $ make Use it To use it, you will need to know the name of the application or PID, once you know it: Examples of use If we want to avoid that Firefox does not exceed 30% of CPU usage type cpulimit -e firefox -l 30 In the case of wanting to limit the process with PID 3675 to use only 40% CPU at maximum, for that type on your console as f...
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