Re: Throttle a process deliberately?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Throttle a process deliberately?
Date	2017-03-21 13:08 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2017-03-21, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2017-03-21 08:03, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>> On 2017-03-19 17:39, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>> On 2017-03-18, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>>> On 2017-03-18 10:58, Calum wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Or if you want a (simple) GUI, you could try AppPolice:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <https://github.com/fuyu/AppPolice>
>>>>>
>>>>> ooooohhh! any experience with it?
>>>>
>>>> I just tried it, and it gives you a really nice little slider to control
>>>> how much CPU time a process gets. The load was spread evenly across all
>>>> cores.I have Handbrake pushing a fairly constant 770-795% CPU on my
>>>> 8-core MacPro, and was able to smootlhy throttle it down to 0% or
>>>> anywhere between, while watching the system CPU meter respond
>>>> accordingly.  Nice little utility. : )
>>>
>>> How do you install it?  Do you need XCode?  I removed it because I was
>>> tired of the monster updates.  (I compile command line).
>>
>> Nah. I just grabbed a compiled binary.
>
> ?  Where did you find a trustable compiled version?

Click the "releases" tab on GitHub.

I also downloaded the source in case I want to look at or hack it.

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Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-17 19:04 -0400
  Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-17 23:29 +0000
    Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2017-03-18 14:58 +0000
      Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-18 17:33 -0400
        Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2017-03-19 20:56 +0000
        Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-19 21:39 +0000
          Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 07:51 -0400
            Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 12:08 +0000
              Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 08:38 -0400
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 13:07 +0000
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 09:16 -0400
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 13:37 +0000
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 11:09 -0400
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 17:08 +0000
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 14:54 -0400
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 20:54 +0000
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 18:40 -0400
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 23:01 +0000
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-22 19:33 -0400
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-23 05:22 +0000
          Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 07:53 -0400
            Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 12:03 +0000
              Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 08:39 -0400
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 13:08 +0000
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 09:25 -0400
      Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 09:32 -0400
    Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-18 17:31 -0400
      Re: Throttle a process deliberately? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-03-18 17:49 -0400
        Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 11:09 -0400
      Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-18 23:26 +0000
        Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-19 17:21 +0000
        Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 09:35 -0400
      Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-19 17:04 +0000
        Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 11:07 -0400

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