HOWTO: Set maximum CPU consumption in percentage by any process

[gagginaspinnata]

Is there any way to run it on mac osx? I know that cpulimit works fine on osx

[abcuser]

@gagginaspinnata, I don't know, I don't have a mac, but osx is a unix like system, so it may work. You will need to test it to see how it is working - most probably the start-up scripts will not work, but cpulimit deamon could.

[staple22]

Hi,

I have two processes on my server with the same name and using your scripts it only traps one of them.

So for example is you ran this commend twice to generate fake load.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null &
And then in the blacklist you set the variable equal to dd
it would only trap the first instance of the process name. Can you let me know how I can trap all processes with this name on the server rather than just the first one.

P.S. abcuser - u provided an awesome script.

[liju.g.chacko]

Don't limit root processes. When I tried to limit Xorg process via
gnome-terminal, system hanged(ubuntu 12.04).
Please add "root" to white list as below

WHITE_PROCESSES_LIST="root"