A process is a binary program running continuously on a computer (until terminated) which is managed by the operating system.
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Start java process with different names?
I have 2 eclipse and 2 servers running
If i make a ps -C java i see something like:
2460 pts/1 00:03:08 java
2908 pts/3 00:00:05 java
3045 pts/4 00:00:17 java
3284 pts/3 00:01:40 java
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Unexplained tor processes running
When I do pgrep tor, I get the following response:
eamorr@eamorr:~$ pgrep tor
4066
4072
4079
4080
4082
4087
4089
4097
4124
I even uninstalled tor (sudo apt-get remove --purge tor) and these ...
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Mac Text-To-Speech getting bullied by other processes
I try to have my computer read to me as much as possible, but if I am doing too much on my computer (ie. too many tabs open on chrome, or running eclipse or some other development application) the ...
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Multiple system calls from PID 0 in Windows
Recently, one of my old PC at home lags at times. I open the Process Monitor (from sysinternals.com) and find multiple system calls from a process with PID 0, including CreateFile operation. I thought ...
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Is it possible to hint Windows to bring a process completely out of swap
Is it possible to hint the Windows virtual-memory-manager to bring a particular process out of swap?
The situation I often find myself in is normally using about 50% of my RAM for all the normal ...
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Process memory usage: what is this?
When they say process memory usage, what does this actually mean, i.e. what does this memory consist of? There are different kinds of memory, such as Shared Memory, Memory-mapped file, virtual memory ...
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How to keep a completed process in memory?
I have a program that has a large startup delay. (it needs to load lots of data from hard drive). So, I call it from the command line and provide it the name of input file, it processes that and ...
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STATUS_SXS_ASSEMBLY_NOT_FOUND (0xc0150004) - Find out which DLL is unable to load?
I'm getting the 0xc0150004 error code back when a sub-process is spawned (here in a python application). I already found out that it means STATUS_SXS_ASSEMBLY_NOT_FOUND which basically means that ...
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My MPC started on its own and the process mpch64.exe was running at 100%, why? [duplicate]
I was working and all of a sudden heard my computer fan spinning extremely fast as if I was playing a 3D intensive game. I checked my processes and quickly discovered the culprit - mpch64.exe. My CPU ...
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Determining Source of System Open Handles
Set up
Sometimes when you try to determine what process has an open handle to an object (file, registry key, etc.), you will find that it is the System process:
Problem
The object handle is ...
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How can I reboot system using Upstart?
I'm using Upstart on Ubuntu 12.04 to control and monitor a service defined by me, where the service is a user process running as a daemon.
I need to monitor it so, when it fails/crashes it respawns, ...
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Process explorer cycle and time not matching
I have a question about process explorer.
I am checking the performances of two different processes:
skype cycle : 4,600,000,000 ; skype total cpu time : 5:00.000
chrome cycle 200,000,000 ...
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Monitoring a process
I'm reading documentation on supervisor, and it quotes:
It’s often difficult to get accurate up/down status on processes on
UNIX. Pidfiles often lie. Supervisord starts processes as
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Why does Google Chrome keep processes running when I don't allow background apps to run after I close?
Okay so here I close Chrome and it keeps a process running. I tell it to not let anything run after it's closed, but it still does. Also, a lot of the time, it messes with Microsoft Word 2010 and will ...
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Is it possible to enable a process to remain active during Windows sleep mode?
While the majority of processes are sleeping, can a selection of them continue to operate normally?
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Is it possible to kill a loop in bash without killing the instance of bash running the loop?
Suppose I execute (in an interactive bash shell) a loop that spawns a bunch of processes in sequence, such as the following.
for i in `seq 15 42`; do if [ -f F$i.flv.mp3 ]; then play F$i.flv.mp3; fi; ...
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Force IE to use one process per tab
I've noticed that IE occasionally groups several tabs into one process. Unfortunately, this ends up being self-destructive as eventually all the 10-12 tabs I usually have open end up on just one or ...
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How do I force a process to stay on even after logging out or move process out of user-space memory?
I am quite often uploading various big files to various websites with my web browser on a slow connection and not every website support resuming of the upload.
Now my lsass.exe process consumes ...
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How to overcome Access Denied when killing process in Windows?
How to kill process which does not want to? I have Access Denied message when trying to kill the process. I know it can be due to device driver waiting and probably this is the reason.
But my ...
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Linux command for creating/leaving/returning to shells
I was using a command a long time ago to manage my background processes and I can't remember wich one. I had to install it.
I could create a shell and go into it
Run a process
Leave the shell with ...
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What is the “Ideal Processor” value?
What is the "Ideal Processor" value and why/how does it pick a certain processor to run on?
I've recently seen an obvious increase in CPU usage on the furthest last core, core #7 (i7 930 ...
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Why are some processes in “trees”, but others aren't?
In a program that shows process tree layouts, like Process Explorer, I see that some programs are "floating", apparently not tied to any tree. How is this possible?
Most of the processes are tree'd ...
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activity monitor - alert over an email when no activity detected (file changed or via http request)
Is there any reliable and configurable utility for linux severs that sends email notifications when no specified/configured/scripted activity is detected for a given period of time?
I'm not looking ...
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Which processes were running yesterday?
We have a production machine that keeps crashing on regular basis. Our staging environments run fine, but when the application is deployed to production, the production machine crashes after two or ...
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The difference between task context and process context in Linux kernel
I was reading Linux kernel Document and found in some places, they use task context and process context.
linux/Documentation$ grep -R "task context" .
./driver-model/driver.txt:147:The probe() entry ...
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Firefox spawns a DllHost.exe process when downloading ZIP files
I'm running Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. When downloading a ZIP file in Firefox, a DllHost.exe process appears. The command line is this:
C:\Windows\system32\DllHost.exe ...
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Start program before log on
Can I run a program on start-up before anyone has logged in?
So that, for example, q-torrent and some other programs start again after unexpected shutdown (like power failure or similar) and ...
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System (ACPI.sys) is always using about 15-20% of my CPU
I have a 13" Sony Vaio laptop (model SVS13A1C5E) and I upgraded it to Windows 8 with a fresh install, after upgrading I installed Win8 drivers listed here.
Now I have a problem with the CPU usage (it ...
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Should I care about “system instability” notice? What does it mean?
When changing the priority of a process Windows 7 warns:
Changing the priority of certain processes could cause system instability.
Should I care? what does it even mean? what are the ...
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What killed my process?
Been having a problem with application that keeps getting killed. This is running a RHEL5 server. We ran strace against the process and at the end of the trace file I get a bunch of +++ killed by ...
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What processes, if any, exist between PIDs 0 and 4 on Windows 7?
Just out of curiosity what are the processes between 0 and 4, and also between 4 and 200 something.
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Create a logging program
I want to create a program that logs all the processes started by the user and confirms after they are started. I don't want to log all the syscalls and other daemon processes. I have initially ...
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Unable to run MSI from network path using Process.Start - Is this possible to run an msi from network share?
I would like to start an MSI which lives on network share, however the msiexec 'help' dialog shows instead (which indicates something is wrong with the process start info):
string testPath1 = ...
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How does ssh work on a processor? [closed]
If I am having many ssh instances running at once on a server to many client computers, then how are processor time and cores set up?
For example, I have a 2 Core box with lubuntu running on it. How ...
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How to stop and detect the fork bomb
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main()
{
while(1)
fork();
}
This is the code for a fork bomb.
In our college, we connect via telnet i.e client serving protocol. ...
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Call a command line program in Terminal.app without leashing to the terminal? [duplicate]
Running a program with & appended is a handy way to run it as a background process, but the program is still leashed to the terminal; if you quit Terminal.app, the program ends.
How can you start ...
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How to move a process from one vnc window to another?
I have 2 wireshark instances open on a single vnc session.
I want to move one of them to another vnc session.
How can this be done?
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What does kill 0 do actually?
In the man page, it says:
0 All processes in the current process group are signaled
And I tried like this:
$ man kill &
[1] 15247
$
[1]+ Stopped man kill
$ kill ...
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How can I kill a parent process only?
I have the following processes.
ParentProcess
-- ChildProcess
-- ChildProcess
-- ChildProcess
How can I kill the parent process only? I want the children processes not to be killed. If I try to ...
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taskkill windows command getting hung
I have a few batch files in which I directly call taskkill command to kill running processes (because they interfere with these nightly build scripts). But recently, it seems after some Windows ...
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Where are changes made by the PWRCFG.EXE command line utility stored?
Specifically in regards to the below part of another answer, is there somewhere I can manually set/edit what this utility is doing?
Powercfg Command-Line Options
In the command line you can type
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Let any exe prevent system sleep/hibernation in windows [duplicate]
Is there a way to have Windows system standby prevented in the event that a particular executable is still running?
I know playing videos does this semi-automatically but I'd like to apply this ...
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How to remove unwanted background processes?
Since I installed iTunes to manage an iPhone 3GS and the software manager for a Motorola Droid smartphone, I have the below processes run all the time:
How can I remove the processes so they do not ...
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kill - no process found
when I list my processes I have:
root@adam-ThinkPad-T410:~# ps -e | grep signals
11641 pts/0 00:00:00 signals
11642 pts/0 00:00:00 signals
11643 pts/0 00:00:00 signals
but when I ...
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“appleeventsd” slows down Word + EndNote
I'm writing my doctoral thesis on a Macbook pro using MS Word 2011 and Endnote X6 (Mac Word and Endnote on the newest version).
Word responses really slowly to any input like typing or scrolling, with ...
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Stop wget but allow convert-links
I'm running a wget command with a rather deep recursion depth. The deep recursion depth is needed to get the files I want, but I don't want to wait for the operation to complete. I see that I can ...
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Associate a tab in Google Chrome with its process in task manager
How do I identify which process belongs to which tab in Google Chrome?
Normally, I have a (ridiculously) large number of tabs open. If I need to free memory on my box, I would like to choose based ...
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The process “ati2evxx.exe” clogs half my RAM, how can I disable it?
I have a Windows XP 32-bit OS on my computer, which has been acting strange lately: the system REFUSES to shut down, standby or even hibernate. Sometimes, the system even randomly reboots with a split ...
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Windows 8 process System takes 100% disk usage and extremly slows pc
I have Windows 8 and recently I have problem with process System. Sometimes this process takes disk usage to 100% for a several minutes and working speed is betwenn 0,1MB/s and 0,4MB/s. I can't work ...
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bzip2 randomly launches on OS X 10.6.8
Is there an application for OS X that will let me view what parent process is launching bzip2? It randomly opens up and eats a massive amount of CPU so it sorta lags the computer. I'm not sure what's ...
