Utility to throttle CPU usage for a process or application?

[RemarkabLee]

Hi Folks,

Does anyone know of a utility that can CPU throttle a particular process or application?

Example, if I'm doing some video encoding in Handbrake, or rendering something in iDVD it will gobble up all of my CPU time, slowing down my VMWare Fusion session. Something that will put a ceiling on CPU resources for a nominated application would help a great deal.

Thanks

 

[dukebound85]

you could always use the nice command in terminal if you know the process id (can be found in activity monitor or terminal as well)

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-unix-niceprocesses.html

theres a nice site talking about it

 

[RemarkabLee]

Thanks for that

I'm surprised there isn't a (ahem) 'nice' GUI utility for Johnny Averageuser similar to the task priority in XP/Vista.

 

[dukebound85]

Thanks for that

I'm surprised there isn't a (ahem) 'nice' GUI utility for Johnny Averageuser similar to the task priority in XP/Vista.

i would think that there would be, i just havent come across one

 

[Dave00]

There is such an app - Cunning Fox - but it doesn't work on the macs with Intel processors. Works pretty good on an iMac G5 though.

Dave

 

[dirt farmer]

Thanks for that

I'm surprised there isn't a (ahem) 'nice' GUI utility for Johnny Averageuser similar to the task priority in XP/Vista.

Try Blitz

 

[RemarkabLee]

Try Blitz

Thanks dude

 

[darkcurse]

Blitz doesn't do what the OP wants. Its an interesting concept though. Kinda like single threading but with a multi-threaded CPU lol.