On Tue 31 Oct 2000 at 22:12:43 -0500, David Maxwell wrote:
> Is there any way to specify that a process should receive no more than
> x% (say x==25) of available CPU time? He would like to use a limitation
> of this sort in order to perform some clustering performance tests.

A very, very crude way to accomplish this would to run three do-nothing
cpu eaters alongside the process to be limited (at the same priority).

-Olaf.
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