How to use cpulimit [SOLVED]

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How to use cpulimit [SOLVED]

Post by frazelle09 »

Have been using cputhrottle - to keep the system under 50 C - but it tends to freeze after several days... so i looked for another solution. It seems that there is a cpulimit program, which we also have installed.

When i run htop i see at least 8 processes that have "fah" in them. Does anyone know how i should go about using cpulimit? i can't see trying to use it with each of the 8 or more PIDs i'm seeing under htop. Maybe it can be used just after the FAH program is run???

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Re: How to use cpulimit

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The actual processing is done in the FAHCore_nn processes, fah-client handles getting and returning WUs and processing the log files. The "nn" would be replaced with the core number, a8 and a9 for current CPU WUs and I am not certain the oldest GPU core still being used, but in the 20s.
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Re: How to use cpulimit

Post by frazelle09 »

Here's the ChatGPT reply

The " short reply" It took a couple of trys to get this and i still need to make it into some sort of script that the compu can use when booting

cpulimit -e FAHCore_a7 -l 25 -b

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Re: How to use cpulimit [SOLVED]

Post by muziqaz »

Why not just fold on half the cores? Problem solved
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