I went looking for something to clamp down or resource-hog programs (lookin’ at you, baloo), and found that the near-universal recommendation is something called “cpulimit.” Guides, even recent guides, say it’s available on the arch repositories. But as of today, it seems to be absent from those repositories. Searching the AUR, there is something called cpulimit, but it seems to be slightly different from the program that everyone references. It’s missing a couple of the options I see people to refer to. There are also a couple lookalike programs in the AUR. Meanwhile, the git repository of the program hasn’t seen a commit in eight years.
This seemed worth asking about, since it seems like it’s potentially a pretty invasive program. What’s the current correct version of this program? Why isn’t it in the main arch repository anymore?
Looks cool, but I’m not sure at addresses my issue. If I understand niceness correctly, it’s about allocating system resources. But I need something more absolute: when my computer is not doing much, it (very reasonably) thinks that now is a good time to let baloo have the unused CPU time. The result is that my computer’s fans are always running. I don’t mind baloo running (though it seems silly that it wants to run SO much), but if it’s gonna run, it’s gotta be at like 1% or 2% CPU load.
