Package Details: limitcpu 3.1-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/limitcpu.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: limitcpu
Description: A simple cpulimit program that attempts to limit the CPU usage of a process, expressed in percentage.
Upstream URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/limitcpu/
Licenses: GPL-2.0-only
Submitter: severach
Maintainer: severach
Last Packager: severach
Votes: 2
Popularity: 0.002691
First Submitted: 2015-09-13 10:16 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-10-20 04:55 (UTC)

Latest Comments

d-air1 commented on 2024-07-07 08:47 (UTC)

If you need help maintaining this, let me know.

Reden commented on 2024-06-19 21:26 (UTC) (edited on 2024-06-19 21:37 (UTC) by Reden)

What makes this better over cpulimit?

Edit: I noticed limitcpu is 31K, while cpulimit is 30K.

For posterity, help lines which demonstrate differences

[reden@pc ~]$ cpulimit
Error: You must specify a cpu limit percentage
Usage: cpulimit [OPTIONS...] TARGET
   OPTIONS
      -l, --limit=N          percentage of cpu allowed from 0 to 400 (required)
      -v, --verbose          show control statistics
      -z, --lazy             exit if there is no target process, or if it dies
      -i, --include-children limit also the children processes
      -h, --help             display this help and exit
   TARGET must be exactly one of these:
      -p, --pid=N            pid of the process (implies -z)
      -e, --exe=FILE         name of the executable program file or path name
      COMMAND [ARGS]         run this command and limit it (implies -z)

Report bugs to <marlonx80@hotmail.com>.

[reden@pc ~]$ limitcpu
Error: You must specify a target process
CPUlimit version 3.0
Usage: limitcpu TARGET [OPTIONS...] [-- PROGRAM]
   TARGET must be exactly one of these:
      -p, --pid=N        pid of the process
      -e, --exe=FILE     name of the executable program file
                         The -e option only works when
                         cpulimit is run with admin rights.
      -P, --path=PATH    absolute path name of the
                         executable program file
   OPTIONS
      -b  --background   run in background
      -f  --foreground   launch target process in foreground and wait for it to exit
      -c  --cpu=N        override the detection of CPUs on the machine.
      -l, --limit=N      percentage of cpu allowed from 1 up.
                         Usually 1 - 400, but can be higher
                         on multi-core CPUs (mandatory)
      -m, --monitor-forks  Watch children/forks of the target process
      -q, --quiet        run in quiet mode (only print errors).
      -k, --kill         kill processes going over their limit
                         instead of just throttling them.
      -r, --restore      Restore processes after they have
                         been killed. Works with the -k flag.
      -s, --signal=SIG   Send this signal to the watched process when cpulimit exits.
                         Signal should be specificed as a number or 
                         SIGTERM, SIGCONT, SIGSTOP, etc. SIGCONT is the default.
      -v, --verbose      show control statistics
      -z, --lazy         exit if there is no suitable target process,
                         or if it dies
          --             This is the final CPUlimit option. All following
                         options are for another program we will launch.
      -h, --help         display this help and exit

tarball commented on 2024-01-29 05:32 (UTC) (edited on 2024-01-29 05:32 (UTC) by tarball)

limitcpu has replaced cpulimit on Debian and some other distributions and is what gets installed when you ask for cpulimit. Could you add a provides clause to mirror this behavior?

cpulimit doesn't have any official status on Arch anymore (it's in the AUR) and IMHO this package should be the preferred one.

Maybe there's no need to rename commands anymore.