Re: CPU limiting or similar of an application

Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> wrote:

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?

This won't help you (but it might be of interest to others): the Systemd developers have been working on this. In particular, since every user session or system daemon occupies its own container, it's possible to limit CPU time and other resources of the appropriate container in order to control over-all usage. Thus in theory (and probably in practice - I don't have a machine with Systemd installed) you could limit the CPU time allocated to your X session, or perhaps it's possible to run Thunderbird in a different container.