Process Laso - Is it worth it?

Sounds cool on paper, anyone has any experience with it and can tell me if it would benefit me with my system specs?

https://bitsum.com/

 

This seems pointless to me. We are power users why would we use some software to optimize performance and risk breaking things when we already tuned everything for performance?

 

yeah my thoughts too, just wanted to make sure there isn't anything I'm missing.

Thank you brother

 

I don't trust these third party tools. Something always gets messed up and I'm spending the next few hours fixing it or reinstalling Windows (which admittedly is much easier and less of a hassle with Windows 10 now but still a nuisance).

 

Sounds like snake oil


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Yup, just install Windows 7/8, put it on the internet, and Microsoft will find it and upgrade it to Windows 10 in minutes

 

It's a fun tool, does lots of fun things, but usually I have enough hardware to power through problems without much hassle.

I have used it in the past with less capable hardware to get the most out of it for batch processing. and still have good interactive use.

These days it's probably a fun toy to get to know the OS, and your own applications / processes resource usage, nothing wrong with that.

I downloaded it Process Lasso yesterday and tried to let the auto stuff help out this ancient Windows Vista machine, and it did fine.

I wouldn't worry about installing it being a security problem, it's been around a long time, but it would take some investment in time to get to know it well enough to optimize it - a lot of people do.

It's advertised such that you can just install with default's and it will do the rest on it's own. So far that's true on my 2nd install. My first install I went through and flipped a bunch of switches - I think it's gonna take me some time to read up and figure out what is best to change and what is best to leave alone.

The Game mode can be enabled / disabled, and Bitsum Highest Performance power plan is fun too. I just leave ProBalance enabled and watch the logs for what it is doing.

I need to read up on it to get more from it... it's nice that it can run without user intervention. I am getting better interactive performance.

 

Sure looks like mackeeper to me...

 

Here's a how to use Process Lasso posting to improve performance in Prepar3d, written recently, with nice detailed settings suggestions:

How to use Process Lasso the right way
http://www.avsim.com/topic/486658-how-to-use-process-lasso-the-right-way/

FYI - in case you haven't heard of Prepar3d:

http://www.prepar3d.com/

"Training meets reality with Lockheed Martin’s Prepar3D® simulation software. Private pilots, commercial organizations, militaries, and academia rely on Prepar3D for immersive, experiential learning.

Prepar3D (pronounced “prepared”) is a visual simulation platform that allows users to create training scenarios across aviation, maritime, and ground domains. Users can train anywhere in the virtual world, from underwater to sub orbital space.

Prepar3D furthers the development of Microsoft® ESP™ while maintaining compatibility with Microsoft Flight Simulator X, allowing many thousands of add-ons to be used within Prepar3D."

Process Lasso Forums
https://bitsum.com/forum/index.php?board=6.0

 

^ Just read the avsim post, did he really need this software to change the priority of the prepar3d.exe process?

I'm sure there can be value in Process Lasso for some, not convinced this should be on a server though...

 

Installed on 250 Citrix servers...

Spoiler

https://bitsum.com/forum/index.php/topic,1083.0.html
Re: Customer reviews of Process Lasso
« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2014, 05:08:00 AM »

Using Process Lasso in an enterprise environment.

In my company we run a Citrix XenApp solution based on Windows terminal server and several years ago had a lot of problems with users hogging CPU resources, to the detriment of other users on the same server. Citrix has its own CPU fair sharing system, but it is really bad and with Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft also introduced one, but again not very good.

Searching for something better we stumbled upon Process Lasso and after a short test we bought it and implemented it on all our Citrix XenApp servers. In our production environment we currently have around 250 servers, serving some 3000 concurrent users.

When installed as a service Process Lasso turned out to be very effective at ensuring, that CPU is shared fairly among all users. A lot of processes you would normally not associate with high CPU loads, like Outlook or Acrobat Reader, can easily use enough CPU that it affects the other applications the user is running and in worst case other user's applications. Multi thread applications like Excel can be particularly nasty, as it will happily use every available bit of CPU it can get its hands on, which will literally kill an entire server and make it unresponsive. After introducing Process Lasso we very rarely see stalls or hangs caused by CPU load, even with all the Internet Explore processes frequently using lots of CPU due to flash banners usually .

Being able to exclude process from ProBalance is also very valuable, as we do not want certain applications like our ERP system (SAP) to be restricted.

I have yet to hear about any other product that comes close to what Process Lasso does and for the price this really ought to be standard in any Citrix XenApp installation. The support is outstanding and request for new features are handled swift and very professionally.

Today I can't even imagine running our Citrix XenApp installation without Process Lasso on it, since it would have a huge detrimental effect for the experience our users have using the system. So if you have never thought about using Process Lasso in an enterprise environment, especially in a terminal server environment, I can highly recommend trying it out.

Karsten Rechnagel
System Administrator
Solar A/S

 

^ Better you than me... Does the software make any config change that cannot be done in the OS alone?

 

Give it a try yourself

 

Seems lasso can be used to get high XTU bench scores for gens before Skylake. Doesn't make the bench physically faster but because of XTU being buggy and still not fixed for 3 months or more. :/

 

I used it for months and i just removed it, I only really see it being of use with a low power cpu system as some processes can grind your system to an halt, when process lasso will assign this process an lower priority so this does not happen.

You can also assign a process as an game so it switches your power plan to high performance and assign more processes to the game, though even though i game using the Intel gpu in my cpu it does not seem to make any real difference.

Also on an multi-core cpu you can tell process lasso to turn off your cpu cores that are not needed, maybe this can save some battery power.

So give the demo a go, and see if it make much of a difference to you.

John.