How To Install cpulimit on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpulimit on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is cpulimit
cpulimit is:
cpulimit is a simple program that 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 priority stuff, but on the real CPU usage. Besides it is able to adapt itself to the overall system load, dynamically and quickly.
There are three methods to install cpulimit on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cpulimit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cpulimit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cpulimit
Install cpulimit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cpulimit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cpulimit
Install cpulimit Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cpulimit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cpulimit
How To Uninstall cpulimit on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the cpulimit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cpulimit
Uninstall cpulimit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cpulimit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cpulimit
Remove cpulimit Configurations and Data
To remove cpulimit configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cpulimit
Remove cpulimit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cpulimit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cpulimit
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpulimit package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
