cpulimit macOS M1,M2 not work

It cannot limit the CPU usage of a specific app. on M1, M2 CPU macbook

May 31 '24 08:05 aBusyAnt

Also verified on a M2. Using ffmpeg with and without cpulimit and giving different --limit values ranging from the instructed 0 to 800 (M2 with 8 cores) produced the same result: 100% usage across all 8 cores.

ffmpeg version 7.0.1 cpulimit--0.2.arm64_sonoma.bottle.tar.gz

Jun 24 '24 07:06 cottsak

Still does not work, it slightly reduces cpu stress if to use value of "1" but not close to where it should be. UPD: I have found this one works, however it leave process frozen when macbook closed / sleep or on mcpulimit exit. https://github.com/tgulacsi/mcpulimit

Sep 26 '24 12:09 FelikZ

try this: https://github.com/HiGarfield/cpulimit

Oct 29 '24 16:10 HiGarfield

not work on my Apple M3 Max

May 29 '25 03:05 binarrii

not work on my Apple M3 Max

Fixed in my forked repo. https://github.com/HiGarfield/cpulimit

See the commit: https://github.com/HiGarfield/cpulimit/commit/8ba47f4ecba49e445443f794355313f0d41eafb8

Jun 15 '25 18:06 HiGarfield

not work on my Apple M3 Max

Fixed in my forked repo. https://github.com/HiGarfield/cpulimit

See the commit: HiGarfield@8ba47f4

tks! it works fine on m4 pro, i can see the expected activate rate with [-v]

Jul 18 '25 04:07 burnablEe