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Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:44:04 +1000
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
To: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: How to limit CPU usage in Python
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On 20Sep2012 12:53, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
| On 9/20/2012 12:46 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
| > On 9/20/2012 11:12 AM, Rolando Cañer Roblejo wrote:
| >> Is it possible for me to put a limit in the amount of processor usage (%
| >> CPU) that my current python script is using? Is there any module useful
| >> for this task? I saw Resource module but I think it is not the module I
| >> am looking for. Some people recommend to use nice and cpulimit unix
| >> tools, but those are external to python and I prefer a python solution.
| >> I am working with Linux (Ubuntu 10.04).
| >
| > Call the external tools with subprocess.open.
| 
| I meant to end that with ? as I don't know how easy it is to get the 
| external id of the calling process that is to be limited. I presume that 
| can be done by first calling ps (with subprocess) and searching the 
| piped-back output.

If you're limiting yourself, os.getpid().
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>