https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/cgroups https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/cgroups This post has an example on how to limit a process (in this instance

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/cgroups https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/cgroups This post has an example on how to limit a process (in this instance it's Matlab) regarding it's memory use an the CPUs it will allow to be scheduled. To limit the CPU further, you might want to use the "userspace" cpufreq governor and allow down your CPU clock.