control CPU usage

[Sean DiZazzo]

On Sep 19, 9:17 am, kakarukeys <kakaruk... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I am running a loop for a long time, calculating heavily, the CPU
> usage
> is at 100%, making the comp not so responsive. Is there a way to
> control the
> CPU usage at say 80%? putting a time.sleep(0.x) doesn't seem to help
> although CPU usage level is reduced, but it's unstable.
>
> Regards,
> W.J.F.

If you are on linux, you can use the 'nice' command.  It will still
take 100%, but will give it up to other processes that need to use the
cpu.

nice -n 19 <script>

In windows, I guess you could change the priority of the process in
the Task Manager.  Not sure how to do it programatically.

~Sean