Comment 7 for bug 1431616

> perhaps we should instead consider having the resource-intensive part automatically abort if it is determined the CPU load gets too high.

That should be normally the job of the OS scheduler. But of cause, we can make mistakes that stops the OS from doing its job best.
I hope we have already found them since Mixxx 1.11 and if not ... ther is still some work to do. Any profiling data will help.