How To Install cpulimit on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpulimit in Fedora 36. cpulimit is CPU Usage Limiter for Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpulimit on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cpulimit.

Install cpulimit on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cpulimit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cpulimit

Install cpulimit on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

To uninstall only the cpulimit package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cpulimit

cpulimit Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/cpulimit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/4958732ff9c40347fb5a7a07f3e3046236b347
/usr/share/doc/cpulimit
/usr/share/doc/cpulimit/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cpulimit
/usr/share/licenses/cpulimit/LICENSE

References

cpulimit website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpulimit on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).