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Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

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On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Apr 2023, at 15:26, songbird wrote:
>> songbird wrote:
>> ...
>>>   i've been trying to find anything that will let me set this
>>> but no luck yet in my searches.
>
> Surely you don't need to set a temperature limit?  If you
> do, the cpu will still run (far too much, but less than now)
> up to that lower max temperature.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to limit the amount of cputime that
> the hogging application is using?

I wondered this too. It reminds me a little of the old joke.

PATIENT: It hurts when I go like THIS [FLAPS ARMS]! Please help me.
DOCTOR: Then stop going like THIS [FLAPS ARMS]!

> Google suggests that "nice" or "cpulimit" might do that.

I would do

  $ man -k limit

and see what looked interesting. prlimit(1) looks like it has a lot of
switches.

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how to limit a CPU temperature? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-08 16:20 +0200
  Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-08 16:30 +0200
    Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? "tv.debian" <tv.debian@googlemail.com> - 2023-04-08 16:50 +0200
      Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-08 18:00 +0200
        Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-04-08 18:20 +0200
          Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-08 20:40 +0200
    Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbi.73@letterboxes.org> - 2023-04-08 17:00 +0200
      Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-04-08 17:20 +0200
        Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-08 17:50 +0200
      Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-08 18:10 +0200
        Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-04-13 16:30 +0200
    Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-11 02:20 +0200
      Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-11 03:30 +0200
  Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? tom@myposts.ovh - 2023-04-08 16:30 +0200
    Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-08 18:10 +0200
  Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-08 17:20 +0200
    Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-08 18:00 +0200
      Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbi.73@letterboxes.org> - 2023-04-08 18:10 +0200
      [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-04-08 19:00 +0200
        Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-08 19:20 +0200
          the front (was: " Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?") Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-08 19:30 +0200
            Re: the front (was: " Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?") Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-04-08 20:00 +0200
              Re: the front (was: " Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?") Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-08 20:10 +0200
        Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2023-04-09 01:00 +0200
  Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2023-04-08 22:10 +0200
  Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz> - 2023-04-09 02:30 +0200
  Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-09 03:10 +0200
    Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? Mark Allums <maa@allums.com> - 2023-04-09 05:20 +0200
      Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-10 01:50 +0200
  Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2023-04-09 14:30 +0200
    Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-09 14:40 +0200
  Re: how to limit a CPU temperature? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-10 04:20 +0200

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