On: Prevent Zoom from consuming all your CPU on Linux

[t-writescode]

Oh cool! So, does that update this file, too, so it always does it this way? Or?

I'm definitely not familiar with the tricks they're doing here. Looks like an ini file!

[throwaway09223 → t-writescode]

It's: taskset <arguments> <command to run>

So to run `ls ~` on only cpu0 you would run:

taskset -c 0 ls ~

Run it each time you want to invoke the command.

[t-writescode → throwaway09223]

It seems like the article itself updates the icon on the desktop to always use those specific processors, though, right?

[serf → t-writescode]

that's true -- but given that not all desktop environments respect the idea of *.desktop , and not all distributions use /.local/share, so , pedantically, the parent that suggests 'taskset -c 0-4 ZoomLauncher' suggests a tip that will work on just about every linux distribution, however the git snippet that was linked as the parent of this thread will only work on a handful of distribution/desktop-environment combinations.

tl;dr : parent to your comment suggests a more generalized 'for linux' solution that doesn't depend on specific flavor nuances and desktop environs.

(user 10000truths has a good point, it sets memory ceilings as well -- this should still be done in a way that is distro-agnostic.)