This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady

There is a particular kind of silence that falls over an old laptop. The fan spins up, the cursor starts to stutter, and you already know what you'll find when you open top : one process, sitting at 100%, wearing an entire CPU core like a hat.

The usual answers are all a little violent. kill -9 and hope nothing important was in there. nice and hope it helps. Close the lid and sigh.

This week's theme is slow and steady , and it gave me an idea for a fourth option: don't kill the greedy process. Slow it down.…