[THIN] Re: mem and cpu control

I may not post as much any more, but I do lurk around sometimes.

 

If I remember correctly, Threadmaster stopped being free for commercial use at one point, so that should be pointed out.

 

As to the memory…

 

You can’t place a limit (e.g.: WSRM quotas) on how much memory a process can use without crashing apps. 

 

What you can do is limit apps from needing as much.  The RTO / Citrix approach (or similar ideas used by Appsense, Tricerat, and others) reduces memory usage by fixing up dlls.   This has a much bigger impact on a terminal server than it would a desktop or non-ts server, due to the greater amount of dll sharing that happens on a multi-user system.

 

Also, another approach you may find out there are snake-oil memory saving tricks that should be avoided.  Generally, these tricks cause all currently used memory in ram to get paged out to the page file in order to free up ram.  Really bad idea.

 

From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of TSguy92 Lan
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:45 AM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: mem and cpu control

 

Jim K. introduced Process Lasso to the list a while back, which is also an excellent utility for controlling CPU usage. The added functions of being able to set a process's priority level, or CPU affinity has come in very handy for us on a few occasions where we used Process Lasso to boost the CPU utilization of specific EXEs. 

It's default behavior is to cap CPU usage for processes when they reach 20%.

http://www.bitsum.com/prolasso.php

Unlike threadmaster (which I'm still a fan of), process lasso is still being actively updated, and it's supports x64 systems.

Not sure of utilities for memory cap'ing exe's . . I vaguely recall some registry modifications that could be set per exe on a system . . will see if I can digg some of that up.

HTH

Lan

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Greg Reese <gareese@gmail.com> wrote:

i'm not opposed to paying for something if it works.  And you are correct, threadmaster does nothing for memory.  i"ll check out what appsense has.

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Jon Wallace <jon@b69ca.com> wrote:

Without wanting to do a sales pitch I don't believe Thread Master controls physical memory.  AppSense Performance Manager will control CPU and physical memory for a process.  It is however, not free of charge...

To be open, yes I do work for AppSense.

Thanks,
Jon

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On Sep 5, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Greg Reese wrote:

knew it was something master.

 

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