On 10/01/13 10:42, Carl Turney wrote: > Thunderbird is doing a major re-indexing of messages, which is really > pushing my CPU to its limits. (i.e. getting over 60C core temperature, > email process using 100-160% of CPU usage - dual core CPU)
> Could any of you point me to instructions to get Ubuntu to limit or > choke the demand that the Thunderbird process calls upon the CPU? The program cpulimit (http://cpulimit.sourceforge.net/) might help. The way it works is a bit crude (using SIGSTOP/SIGCONT), but it is useful in the occasional situations. It can do such things as limit a particular process, for example, to 50% of the CPU usage. cpulimit -l 50 -e thunderbird-bin http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-limit-cpu-usage-of-a-process-with-cpulimit-debian-ubuntu regards, Glenn -- sks-keyservers.net 0xb1e82ec9228ac090 _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
