Pano System for Cloud Administrator's Guide - Pano Logic

Chrome Task Manager
To check on detailed resource use on an
individual Pano Desktop for Cloud, you can
right-click in Chrome’s tab bar and select
Task Manager, or type Shift-Esc. Using the
Chrome Task Manager requires more effort
than using a server-based tool but it also
provides a wealth of detail on exactly how
much resources are used by each tab,
extension, or website rather than just
providing an overall number per desktop.
When opened, the Chrome Task Manager will
display a list of all of the processes running
on the cloud desktop, including memory
used, CPU percentage, transfer speed over
the network, and the frames per second (FPS) where applicable. The information listed for each
task will be dynamically updated in the Task Manager as task resource needs change.
You can use the Task Manager inside a Pano Desktop for Cloud that is experiencing performance
problems to pin down with tab, application, or browser extension might be consuming excessive
resources. Click on any of the column labels to have the results sorted by the values in that
column - for example, to look at the tasks that are using the most RAM, click on the ‘Memory’
column heading to re-sort the results by amount of memory used.
To get more detailed information, click on the ‘Stats for nerds’ link in the lower-left corner of the
Chrome Task Manager. This will open a browser tab with more detailed figures on memory usage
and provide a total for the browser.
Linux Shell Commands
You can use Linux shell
commands to look at resource
use by all processes on the
Pano Controller for Cloud
server. This won’t provide the
detailed component-level view
of resource use you can get
from the Chrome Task Manager
but it does provide an overall
view of resource consumption
by all server processes, not
just the cloud desktops. You’ll
need to run these shell commands from the Pano Controller for Cloud server’s command line, not
from the Pano Controller’s web-based console. Because of this you’ll need to connect a keyboard
and monitor to the server in order to use these commands.
From the Ubuntu Linux shell on the Pano Controller for Cloud server, run the ‘top’ command to
look at resource usage per user. This command doesn't provide a summary of total usage, but
you can capture its output to a log file for analysis. The display from the top command is updated
every five seconds by default, but you can change that with the d command-line option or the s
interactive command. A complete list of top command options and instruction on its use the ‘man
top’ commands.
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