How To Install cpulimit on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpulimit on Fedora 34.
What is cpulimit
cpulimit is a simple program which attempts to limit the CPU usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in CPU time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don’t want them to eat too much CPU. It does not act on the nice value or other scheduling priority stuff, but on the real CPU usage. Also, it is able to adapt itself to the overall system load, dynamically and quickly.
We can use yum or dnf to install cpulimit on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cpulimit.
Install cpulimit on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cpulimit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cpulimit
Install cpulimit on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cpulimit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cpulimit
How To Uninstall cpulimit on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the cpulimit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cpulimit
cpulimit Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/cpulimit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/037112d38c9894a98f0143d556f9b5b703d306
/usr/share/doc/cpulimit
/usr/share/doc/cpulimit/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cpulimit
/usr/share/licenses/cpulimit/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpulimit on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.