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I am having trouble with some processed which hog up all the CPU power such as flash.

Is there a GUI app which can limit how much each process can use the CPU? I know you can do this via command line, but I would like something more user friendly.

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Freezer. Thanks to beiju for finding these for his own answer.

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I'm running snow leopard, all those mentioned are either very very very old and do not specify support, or say they don't support. – cappuccino Nov 29 '10 at 5:44
The publisher of Freezer commented on that page that Snow Leopard is supported. I tested it on SL just now and it seems to work fine. – Stephen Jennings Nov 29 '10 at 5:47
Freezer does not allow me to 'limit' how much a process takes from the CPU. It only allows me to pause, and change priority, but not set for example 10% for a particular process. Also it only lists the opened applications, it does not allow me to target for example 'Flash Player (Safari Internet plug-in), and other background processes. – cappuccino Nov 29 '10 at 5:51
I see. I didn't know such a thing was possible. For my own knowledge, what command line does that (you referred to it in the question)? – Stephen Jennings Nov 29 '10 at 5:53
I tried the apps you suggested, but they made no difference on CPU usage. Command line that does such (I think): cpulimit.sourceforge.net – cappuccino Nov 29 '10 at 5:58
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