On Sunday 26 September 2004 16:14, Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote: > Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 08:28:49PM -0300, Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote: > >>I'd like to know if there is some way I could limit the processor usage > >>of an application. > >> > >>I mean, I have a cpu eat application but I'd like to give it just 30% of > >>my processor. Is there some way I could do that? > >> > >>I saw ulimit, but it limits the processor usage by time. > > > > The most common way to address this is with the nice and renice > > commands. > > Hmmmm, how I could use it? Nice is meant to let me adjust the process > priority isn't it? > > But my process is to be run, but not to run at 100% processor usage :) When a process has low priority, it will take up as much as it needs, upto 100%, except when a higher priority process needs the CPU. So if you set it to a lower priority it won't slow down other processes. > The process I'm trying to use is zsnes, an snes emulator. I know > emulation does take a lot of cpu, but as I have a piv 2.8, I think that > 30% of this processor power is enough. I mean, I have a pentium 166 and > zsnes runs with an acceptable performance. As I'm running Chrono Trigger > game which is an rpg and so not so much graphics intensive. > > So, the problem to me is not not get responsive system. zsnes is polite > enough to even being at 100% usage, I didn't notice any hung of my > system while using it. In fact, I can see other programs hanging it :) > I just don't want to use all the processor power to allow better battery > usage and mainly keep my processor temp as low as possible. I mean, I > didn't want to keep my cpu running at 100% for one, two hours in a row. > Without sleep. Ah, you're on a laptop! Have you tried athcool et al? (if you have an athlon that is) > I hope it helps clarify what my problem is. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > > Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
