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Limit the CPU usage of Linux applications

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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.

If we want to avoid that Firefox does not exceed 30% of CPU usage type:

cpulimit -e firefox -l 30

read more | score:8591 | -Dipin Krishna, August 7, 2009

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