Best Linux distro & version for remote desktop PC running 24/7 financial platform under wine
by degoor from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5EM6F)
I have a remote PC station that is a refurbished machine with the follow specs:
Lenovo ThinkCentre A62, Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2, 5200B 2700Mhz 1MB, RAM 8192MB DDR2, 250 GB SATA, can boot from USB, but has no CD/DVD device.
I bought that because I needed to setup a remote pc station running 24/7 a Windows based financial platform. I don't like any Windows OS that is not daily restarted so I decided I should run that Windows software with wine on Linux.
I need to run a few instances of that platform and one of its current functions is to mine price data, recording every minute the prices of about 150 major stocks.
I have some experience using Linux workstations (mainly Ubuntu) so I set up that remote PC with Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" - Cinnamon (64-bit) which is based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
The remote PC has been running for 2 months now and I started to notice a few problems. It turns out that a Linux desktop system is not so stable as I expected.
I began running under wine 2 instances of the financial platform and the CPU usage was on average 80-85% which seemed to me a lot given the fact that this platform is really light on Windows {should have been written in about 2005 or even before that}.
When I started the price mining in a third instance without restarting the OS, the CPU load went to over 90% and in 2-3 hours after I left it to run on its own, the PC crashed. When I restarted the system, the 3 instances loaded the CPU to about 80-85%.
Apart from the platform instances I need to have an open web browser running a single web page which I use to login into my internet account. The PC also runs a script that attempts to reconnect the internet on its own.
I think I made a mistake using a typical desktop Linux distribution that is not really intended to be light on somewhat older hardware. I might have been better off installing some Ubuntu server version {or another Linux server} and adding some lightweight window manager / desktop environment on top of it.
What would you have done if you were in my shoes?
Lenovo ThinkCentre A62, Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2, 5200B 2700Mhz 1MB, RAM 8192MB DDR2, 250 GB SATA, can boot from USB, but has no CD/DVD device.
I bought that because I needed to setup a remote pc station running 24/7 a Windows based financial platform. I don't like any Windows OS that is not daily restarted so I decided I should run that Windows software with wine on Linux.
I need to run a few instances of that platform and one of its current functions is to mine price data, recording every minute the prices of about 150 major stocks.
I have some experience using Linux workstations (mainly Ubuntu) so I set up that remote PC with Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" - Cinnamon (64-bit) which is based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
The remote PC has been running for 2 months now and I started to notice a few problems. It turns out that a Linux desktop system is not so stable as I expected.
I began running under wine 2 instances of the financial platform and the CPU usage was on average 80-85% which seemed to me a lot given the fact that this platform is really light on Windows {should have been written in about 2005 or even before that}.
When I started the price mining in a third instance without restarting the OS, the CPU load went to over 90% and in 2-3 hours after I left it to run on its own, the PC crashed. When I restarted the system, the 3 instances loaded the CPU to about 80-85%.
Apart from the platform instances I need to have an open web browser running a single web page which I use to login into my internet account. The PC also runs a script that attempts to reconnect the internet on its own.
I think I made a mistake using a typical desktop Linux distribution that is not really intended to be light on somewhat older hardware. I might have been better off installing some Ubuntu server version {or another Linux server} and adding some lightweight window manager / desktop environment on top of it.
What would you have done if you were in my shoes?