~~Kev
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, John Fulmer wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Is there a way to keep a process from hogging 100% cpu usage? One thing
> that has always bugged me is that a process (oh like, hmmmm, NETSCAPE!)
> can grap 100% cpu for a period of time (usually seconds) and grind the
> system to a halt for that period. I'm familiar with niceness levels, but
> it seems that an ill-behaved process can still jerk the system to a halt
> for a few seconds.
>
> Is there a way to say that any one process or thread can only allocate
> x% of the total cpu usage? I would think that a governor of some sort
> make make linux, especially as a desktop, perform much smoother.
>
> thanks,
>
> jf
>
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