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Application to (deliberately) consume CPU time?

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Mar 15, 20261534 views
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Is there an application designed to consume a user defined amount of CPU time? For testing purposes? For instance, it could be set to consume 57% of available CPU time to slow down some other application sufficiently, but not too much, in order to acquire a screenshot of a transient phenomenon. For…

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The question seems difficult. I don't know of any tools which track CPU utilization and control their load according to it. I know that this was a problem for SETI@home project. They solved it by taking a time unit (can't remember if it was a second…

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