Limiting the CPU usage of applications on Linux (ubuntu, debian, fedora etc.)

"Use it
To use it, you will need to know the name of the application or PID, once you know it:

Examples of use
If we want to avoid that Firefox does not exceed 30% of CPU usage type

 cpulimit firefox-e-l 30 

"In the case of wanting to limit the use of 40% CPU PID write 3675 on our console as follows:

cpulimit-p 3675-l 40 

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