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On the subject of system performance on macOS… does anyone know of a decent app/tool for limiting CPU on different processes or programs? This might be less re
by ivanmaeder 6y ago
On the subject of system performance on macOS… does anyone know of a decent app/tool for limiting CPU on different processes or programs?
This might be less relevant on newer hardware, but I'm interested in limiting certain apps (e.g., Dropbox, OS tools) from heating up the computer and making the fans go crazy.
- coldtea 6y agoYou can use the renice command from the command line, after finding the applications pid: http://cheat.sh/renice http://cheat.sh/renice
- dakull 6y agoI like to use htop `brew install htop` and then play with nice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_(Unix) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_(Unix) for "bad" processes).
- lost_my_pwd 6y agoGive AppPolice a try: https://github.com/AppPolice/AppPolice https://github.com/AppPolice/AppPolice