Show HN: Universal Pause Button
This is nice! On OSX, processes can be paused and continued too (by name via killall, and by PID via kill):<p><pre><code>  kill -STOP 1234
  kill -CONT 1234

  killall -STOP -c "Pandora"
  killall -CONT -c "Pandora"
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A more nuanced control is to throttle down the CPU, via cputhrottle[1].<p>If I'm running a CPU-intensive calculation and don't want to bog down the rest of my system I will use it to give me enough cycles for Sublime Text to work smoothly.<p>It's easy to call:<p><pre><code>  sudo cputhrottle PID cpuUsage%</code></pre>
ex.<p><pre><code>  sudo cputhrottle 12345 400
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1. <a href="http://www.willnolan.com/cputhrottle/cputhrottle.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.willnolan.com/cputhrottle/cputhrottle.html</a>