cpulimit YAIT (Yet Another Impressive Tool) | |
Thursday Apr 2 11:26:47 2020 | |
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One of the truly impressive tools I discovered this week is cpulimi | |
It allows you to limit how much cpu percentage a process can use. I | |
is specially indicated when running cpu intensive applications. In | |
case it is 'ffmpeg'. | |
I use 'ffmpeg' on a daily basis to convert my .avi videos to .mp4. | |
often run the script at night with cron.daily but the problem arise | |
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) |