CPU Overheating Problem When Running 4 CPU Intensive Threads with Latest Untained Kernel

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:55:23PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi Efraim,
> 
> On Mon, 19 May 2014 10:19:23 +0300
> Efraim Flashner <efraim.flashner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Also, nice -19 is higher priority than nice 19.
> > 
> 
> No, it's not. When you run the "nice -19" it sets it to the lowest possible
> priority. I see these processes in htop where the nice is set at 19 and I
> cannot lower it at all.

If nice is not enough for your process, ask it to be verynice:
http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/verynice/

"verynice is a nice(1)-like utility to throttle long running processes
beyond what can be achieved by nice(1), by repeatedly suspending and
resuming the process."

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