Integrating legacy Windows applications on a Linux Desktop environment – part II

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 22, 2009

[ Thanks to AS for
this link. ]

“This is far more serious than having an application
crash on a user workstation. Seems that we’d need an automatic way
to “punish” misbehaving processes. In other words, we’d need
process QoS or CPU shaping.

“The solution we found is called Process Lasso. Process Lasso is
a proprietary tool written by Jeremy Collake that monitors the CPU
activity of each running process and lowers the priority of
processes consuming too much CPU.

“A proprietary tool on a Linux integration project? Well, if you
already accepted running a Windows Server with proprietary
applications on top, don’t give up on the last mile that will save
you from many headaches”


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