Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Manu Hack: > The fan is working (I can tell as it's very noisy when I'm running > programs) and it's on a wood table. Will look into the CPU throttling > stuff later. Throttling the CPU would have the same effect as your idea of throttling programs not to use all available CPU cycles - exce

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:05:56PM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > I don't have a thermometer handy :) but the air coming out of the > laptop is pretty hot sometimes. What's the implication? My fan is > broken? The CPU can be no cooler than the air coming out. Either bad design or malfunctioning fa

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Manu Hack
On Jan 23, 2008 11:48 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:33:09AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2008 10:57 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've never used it but what about CPU throttling? There's some package > > > like

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:33:09AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > On Jan 23, 2008 10:57 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've never used it but what about CPU throttling? There's some package > > like CPU utils. Slow down the CPU and it runs cooler. Or complain to > > the people

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Manu Hack
On Jan 23, 2008 10:57 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:16:56AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > > > The problem is that I'm using a laptop but somehow (I don't know > > exactly why) recently when I run some cpu-intensive and time consuming > > programs it caused

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:16:56AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > The problem is that I'm using a laptop but somehow (I don't know > exactly why) recently when I run some cpu-intensive and time consuming > programs it caused the cpu too hot and an automatic shutdown is > resulted. I want to keep the CP

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:16:56AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > The problem is that I'm using a laptop but somehow (I don't know > exactly why) recently when I run some cpu-intensive and time consuming > programs it caused the cpu too hot and an automatic shutdown is > resulted. I want to keep the

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Manu Hack wrote: On Jan 23, 2008 8:41 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:20:48AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: Is there any command like nice so that I can run a command with a cpu limit of at most x%? cpulimit is close to my need but it ca

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Manu Hack
On Jan 23, 2008 8:41 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:20:48AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > > Is there any command like nice so that I can run a command with a cpu > > limit of at most x%? cpulimit is close to my need but it can'

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:20:48AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > Is there any command like nice so that I can run a command with a cpu > limit of at most x%? cpulimit is close to my need but it can't be > invoked like nice, i.e., put it before the command I want to run like >

cpulimit

2008-01-22 Thread Manu Hack
Hi all Debian users, Is there any command like nice so that I can run a command with a cpu limit of at most x%? cpulimit is close to my need but it can't be invoked like nice, i.e., put it before the command I want to run like cpulimit -l 50 some_commands Any input is appreciated. T