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Limiting cpu usage when running cronjobs

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Gaetano Giunta

Thursday 18 March 2010 6:20:36 am

Egg when noptification-sending cronjob is run for the 1st time after being disabled, the cronjob can take quite a lot of resources. Indexing too.

I found out the "cpulimit" command that could be helpful in such a case.

Has anybody ever used it? What are the alternatives?

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