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-... regards, Glenn -- sks-keyservers.net 0xb1e82ec9228ac090