Saturday 23 August 2008

How to View and Limit Process CPU usage in Ubuntu Linux

For ubuntu users, we may want to get the process informations and limit the CPU usage of a process whenever we want.
Launch System Monitor from System->Administration->System Monitor.At Processes tab,you can see all processes and details.
process
You can also use this command to view processes details:
top
or
ps aux
And if you want to limit cpu usage of a process,first install cpulimit with this command:
sudo aptitude install cpulimit
Then,limit the process in following ways:
limit the process with its name to 35%:
cpulimit -e process_name -l 35
limit the process with its ID to 35%:
cpulimit -p ID_here -l 35

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