cpulimit - useful!

[Nils Kassube]

Bob wrote:
> Would "nice" work?
> 
> From what I know I would think "nice" would work better as it would
> not slow down your converter unless something else is needing the
> cpu.

While "nice" helps to some degree, you should also consider "ionice". 
But nice and ionice don't really work as good as you would probably 
expect. Even with

nice -19 ionice -c3 some_command

the resulting process can still make other applications run stuttering. 
So cpulimit seems to be a useful addition.


Nils