How to Install and Uninstall cpulimit Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 15,2024

1. Install "cpulimit" package

Please follow the guidance below to install cpulimit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: cpulimit
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 63
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: gregor herrmann
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.2-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
Filename: pool/universe/c/cpulimit/cpulimit_2.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 15056
MD5sum: 00c7ecec3e137c69dc387223fd5aea94
SHA1: d6b52387e0992938b50c9d80e6641f1ca648690e
SHA256: 5164e5dbcda1cc7773a79178479391d1f6563596cba59cbefee3311ae73299b3
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
Homepage: http://limitcpu.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu