Re: [SLE] Throttle a process to only use x% of available cpu?

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 07:25, Paul Cooke wrote:

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Is it possible to throttle a process so that it can only use a specified maximum of the cpu?

I want to cut setiathome down to say only 50% so that my psu case fan doesn't kick in but still leave seti running.

Have a look at the nice command, man nice -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)