How to use cpulimit in crontab

[kgpanteon]

I have symfony based application, in which we are running command in crontab

1 0 * * *  /usr/bin/php /home/ec2-user/public_html/project/app/console myproject:currency:update

Change to

1 0 * * *  /usr/bin/cpulimit -l 10 /usr/bin/php home/ec2-user/public_html/project/app/console myproject:currency:update

Does this work?

[ghost]

1 0 * * * cpulimit -l 10 (Some Script/Program) & This works for me. Im on a rpi3 B running jessie.

[kgpanteon]

I have added this to crontab, sometimes cpulimit is not applied to cron command. Any reason?

I am using symfony process creation method to run command

$commandline=/usr/bin/cpulimit -l 10 /usr/bin/php home/ec2-user/public_html/project/app/console myproject:currency:update

$process = new Process($commandline);
$process->setWorkingDirectory($rootDirPath);
$process->disableOutput();
$process->setTimeout(0);
$process->run();`

When doing top -c command in console process showing without /usr/bin/cpulimit -l 10

[ivanmonteiro]

After some minutes of troubleshooting, It seems that using the option -mor --monitor-forks is working for me:
cpulimit -m -l 10 COMMAND