cpulimit

A tool to throttle the CPU usage of other processes. More information: http://cpulimit.sourceforge.net/.

cpulimit --pid 1234 --limit 25%

cpulimit --exe program --limit 25

cpulimit --limit 50 -- program argument1 argument2 ...

cpulimit --limit 50 --background -- program

cpulimit --limit 50 --kill -- program

cpulimit --limit 25 --monitor-forks -- program