alquerci / cpulimit

CPU usage limiter for Windows (Cygwin)

cpulimit

CPU usage limiter for windows (cygwin)

This program allow limit CPU usage by any other program. This can be usefull for example for those users, who use distributed calculations clients and have problems with CPU overheating.

It's a clone of cpulimit for linux.

Build and Installation

This package is compatible with the GNU autotools.

• Windows

  $ git submodule init

  $ git submodule update

  It's configure to build with "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008":

  - executing `cpulimit.vcproj` file.
  

• Cygwin

  • Requirements

    • autotools
    • make

  • Briefly the following commands should build, test and install this package.

    $ autoreconf -i && ./configure && make && make install

    See the INSTALL file for more detailed instructions.

Help

$ cpulimit --help

TODO

• Tests suite
• Man
• bash conpletion

Acknowledgments

The original cpulimit was written by Killer