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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