6 Jan
2015
6 Jan
'15
10:51 p.m.
On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> writes:
I never found a way to "throttle down" a process to ease demand on the CPU.
nice ionice -c3 thunderbird
Set the CPU governor(s) to ondemand or conservative, and set "don't speed up for niced loads".
Untested; YMMV &c.
Look at /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device?/cur_state max_state, etc too. Some of the cooling devices are CPU governors that insert a fake idle process at various percentages of 100% "CPU". Ie, they steal cycles from a process that is trying to hog the CPU, but don't heat the processor in the process[1] (some turn on more fans, or maybe make higher sleep states). [1] World record for different meanings of process in a sentence? -- Tim Connors