System ground down to a halt

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 17:54 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> The system slowed down to a crawl and finally stopped dead.

Look at cpulimit. Use it to limit the CPU usage of a process to a set
amount. Excellent for use while transcoding.

   cpulimit -e avconv -l 50 > /dev/null 2>&1 &

or

   cpulimit -b -e avconv -l 50 > /dev/null 2>&1

Regards, K.

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