A process suddenly consuming 99% of your CPU at 2 AM can turn a stable server into a slow, unresponsive mess. The good news is that Linux gives you several ways to prevent this from happening before it becomes a problem.
Maybe it’s a backup job, a software build, or a misbehaving application that starts using all available CPU resources. In many cases, killing the process isn’t the best solution. You may simply want to limit how much CPU or memory it can use so the rest of the system continues running normally.
In this article, you’ll learn four practical ways to control CPU and memory usage for Linux processes.