cpulimit
A tool to throttle the CPU usage of other processes. More information: https://cpulimit.sourceforge.net/.
- Limit an existing process with PID 1234 to only use 25% of the CPU:
cpulimit --pid
1234 --limit
25%
- Limit an existing program by its executable name:
cpulimit --exe
program --limit
25
- Launch a given program and limit it to only use 50% of the CPU:
cpulimit --limit
50 --
program argument1 argument2 …
- Launch a program, limit its CPU usage to 50% and run cpulimit in the background:
cpulimit --limit
50 --background --
program
- Kill its process if the program's CPU usage goes over 50%:
cpulimit --limit 50 --kill --
program
- Throttle both it and its child processes so that none go about 25% CPU:
cpulimit --limit
25 --monitor-forks --
program