How to Install and Uninstall cpulimit Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "cpulimit" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install cpulimit on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                cpulimit
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "cpulimit" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall cpulimit on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                cpulimit
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the cpulimit package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: cpulimit
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.6-3
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: gregor herrmann
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 50
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17)
Filename: pool/universe/c/cpulimit/cpulimit_2.6-3_amd64.deb
Size: 17068
MD5sum: 5ea36f2318c72a73770dd46150c1d721
SHA1: b301034fd6346453795c613dff983291e82bc2ac
SHA256: 81e1f0fbde4b3a2f0ad3af113c09a4c1a454da8a0da974938f9336efc4d16bb7
SHA512: c3af542cfcf516ef575c1516d863b3aa73b07d5a6392315050ee3d933511e90725492a894ad7a60d5a69aeef2e45b630e81d11c8c0829dcf7acc5843f4884f5e
Homepage: http://limitcpu.sourceforge.net/
Description-en: tool for limiting the CPU usage of a process
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.
Description-md5: 0d65d775c76f4ab02a0ce878e5736fcc