Expected Behavior of --include-children

[oldlavender]

Hello,

It's more a clarification - likely a silly one - than an issue (although the help could include a note about that). What should I expected -i (--include-children) to do?

For instance, I run i.e. cpulimit -il 80 make -j5, I took make as an example because the -jn will start n sub-processes, so in this example 5. Therefore, we'll have a total of at least 6 processes here, the main make process and its 5 children, and a cpu limit of 80%.

It means the sum of the 6+ processes will have at most 80% of cpu? Or each of the 6+ processes will have 80% each, resulting in 540%?

[karelbilek]

Came to ask exactly this, but I guess nobody knows

[HiGarfield]

According to the code's logic, the sum of the CPU utilization rates of 6 processes does not exceed 80%.