Package cpulimit: Information
Source package: cpulimit
Version: 0.2-alt1
Build time: Mar 14, 2026, 03:39 PM
Category: Monitoring
Report package bugHome page: https://github.com/opsengine/cpulimit
License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Summary: CPU Usage Limiter
Description:
cpulimit is a tool which limits the CPU usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in CPU time). It is useful to control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat too many CPU cycles. It does not change the nice value or other scheduling priority settings, but the real CPU usage. Also, it is able to adapt itself to the overall system load, dynamically and quickly. The control of the used CPU amount is done sending SIGSTOP and SIGCONT POSIX signals to processes.
Maintainer: Vitaly Lipatov
Last changed
March 12, 2026 Vitaly Lipatov 1:0.2-alt1
- new version 0.2, switched upstream to GitHub (opsengine/cpulimit) - applied Fedora patches for modern Linux kernel compatibility
April 17, 2013 Dmitry V. Levin 1.1-alt1.qa1
- NMU: rebuilt for debuginfo.
July 6, 2009 Vitaly Lipatov 1.1-alt1
- initial release for ALT Linux Sisyphus