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cpulimit has been ported to OSX in the subversion repository. Ironically, the checkout I just compiled form from there used all extra CPU time to run cpulimit. (any coders want to make a patch?)
 While this script is a bit of a hack, I'm keeping it around, since I've got a similar use, and I get tired of hearing the cooling fans on my MBP when I'm in no hurry, and this is working more or less as described.
Limiter Mac Os CatalinaStupid question, isn't this thermal cycling (at the processor level) also not that great for durability? (The fans are certainly been spared by this method.)
The script can be very much simplified (variable i is not needed):
 while true
 do
 kill -SIGSTOP $pid
 sleep $sleeptime
 kill -SIGCONT $pid
 sleep $runtime
 echo -n $dot
 done
Have a look at cputhrottle (http://www.willnolan.com/cputhrottle/cputhrottle.html). It's made for Mac OS X.
 Tested it with 10.6.6, works fine.
 Bernhard
Thanks for this. I'll try it with Handbrake.
Limiter Macomcputhrottle seems to be the better of the choices i've tried. It doesn't seem to work as smoothly as cpulimit does on linux, but it's certainly a workable solution. I used it all the time.
Basically, this is turning the process on and off according to a defined interval. Definitely ugly, but I can't think of a better way to accomplish your task except perhaps running the process in a VM or binding it to a single core.
How can I bind or limit an application to use a single core? 
As an old time Unix programmer, I know that this method can be dangerous! Even though signals are stacked for processes, it is possible that those processes that are not interactive that you try to control using SIGSTOP may lose track of signals. Signals are interrupts that are sent to a process when something outside of the program occurs that the process causes--such as trying to write to memory you do not have access to. SIGSTOP and SIGSTART is part of the jobs control that is usually entered from the terminal by pressing CTRL-Z. Programs designed to handle this properly should be able to process SIGSTART in order to ensure the continuation of the program properly. Many non-interactive programs are not programmed to handle SIGSTART--it is assumed that these signals are used by interactive programs and not relevant for background processes. Rather than using these signals, use the 'nice' command to lower the priority of the process. Nominally, all processes start at priority 0. The priority can be set in the range of -20 (lowest) to +20 (highest). By lowering the scheduling priority you will let the underlying Mach operating system schedule other processes ahead of the one you want to limit access to CPU resources. It has the effect of lowering the scheduling priority to run the process during times when the operating system is idle, which is what you what to happen. It is a cleaner way to do what you want. There are two ways to run processes at a lower priority. First, start the process using the 'nice' command. Make sure you add the ampersand to the end of the command so that the command is run in the background. Otherwise, if you want to change the scheduling priority of a running process, use the 'renice' command. Find the process identification number (pid) of the running process and run the renice command: Just as you lower the scheduling priority, you can also raise the scheduling priority. However, only the superuser can raise the scheduling priority. Thus, at the end of the day if you want to reset the priority of the process back to 0 (nominal), the use 'sudo' to run the renice command. Using the process's pid, run: Using 'nice' and 'renice' is more friendly to most running processes. 
You are both right and wrong. I just had Handbrake crash on me using this script, which could be an example of the pitfalls of this method.
 However, your method, ie, nice, does nothing to keep the total CPU load below 100% (per core), in fact this has already been said in the article, nice is not a solution to reduce the total CPU load.
 What might work more elegantly is to simply disable one CPU core via the Developer Tools. I do not know how much this reduces the thermal load but is bound to reduce it somewhat (unless the TurboBoost kicks and completely overcompensates for this, but then you might be able to disable the TurboBoost via the developer tools as well, you might even be able to limit the CPU speed itself, I do not know.
Just to let you know, I did compile and run cpulimit. You need to download it from http://cpulimit.sourceforge.net/ and make sure you have the latest version of the developer tools. 
I tried cpulimit, checked it out and compiled it with make and ran it with: cpulimit$ ./cpulimit -l 80 -p 47879
 Maybe I did not call it correctly but it did not work, ie, it did not limit my target thread to 80% CPU, cpulimit itself consumed a sizeable chunk of CPU cycles itself and something sucked up my 8 GB of memory. I did not realize this after I had quit my target thread and cpulimit itself, so I am not sure which process gobbled up all my memory, either cpulimit itself or maybe my target thread.
Negative numbers in nice actually allow MORE cpu usage. Positive numbers cut priority down.

Limiter Mac Os DownloadYou're not quite right there... first off, it's SIGSTOP and SIGCONT, not SIGSTART, but I'll assume that's a typo. SIGSTOP isn't what is sent by the terminal when you press control-Z; that's SIGTSTP, which stands for 'Tty SToP'; the signals are different because SIGSTOP cannot be trapped by the program you are controlling.
 Your point about this interfering with the operation of some programs is, however, quite valid.
 (Amusingly, Wikipedia has an article for each POSIX signal, including http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGTSTP )
A paid alternative is Coolbook.
 It offers cpu undervolting as well as fine control over cpu speed steps, cpu throttling and temp limits.
'Though Fan Control can help keep a MacBook Pro cooler, ultimately things that hammer both CPUs can get things so hot that even the fans won't keep the temperature down — and high heat will shorten the lifetime. 
 There's another trick that I use — just pop out the battery and the CPUs will be limited to 1 GHz (at least this is the case with my MBP Dual 2.33 GHz machine). While you obviously need to keep the unit plugged in (and mine's normally also on a UPS circuit when I do this), it's about impossible to get the unit too hot when it's limited to 1 GHz. Great for those multi-hour processing jobs.