A process is a binary program running continuously on a computer (until terminated) which is managed by the operating system. A particular process may run multiple execution threads, but the flow of logic is generally directed by the main processes' thread. The process executes on the CPU when the ...
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Linux Process Lifecycle Timeline Graphing/Visualization
Is there a tool that will monitor the creation and destruction of Linux processes and generate data that would enable me to graph these events with respect to time? Or, alternatively, the tool would ...
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Writing a java program to remove the comments in same java program.? [closed]
I am Writing a java program to remove the comments in same java program. I am thinking of using a file reader. But I'm not sure whether it will work.
Because two process will be using the same file. ...
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How to find and stop a process on a Mac
How can I find the process id and stop the process that is running on port 8080 on a Mac?
On Ubuntu this works:
ps -aux
and I can find the process and run:
kill -9 pid
ps -aux didn't seem to ...
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What advantages does Ending Task have over Ending Process?
From what I know, everytime we want to stop an app (or a frozen app), we will go TaskManager, select the app, Go to Process and terminate the process. "Ending Process" is preferred over "Ending Task" ...
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Is there a way to determine what process started another one?
If I recall right you can determine some of the parameters a process was started with (in Windows it is stored in the Process Environment Block). Can I also find out what process started another one?
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Show PID of process just launched in ZSH
Can I show the PID of a process that I just launched, ideally at the end of the line of the command?
Example:
root in ~: mysqld .................. [PID 34567]
12121 mysql-logs start to come in...
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Linux — Django test server running in background… somewhere
Using Putty on my Vista machine, I logged into my development server (Ubuntu) and fired up the Django Test server. It runs an apache-like server to test my web app. The app runs on my internal IP ...
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kill process windows using taskkill
I have a java script which is running and kills some processes according to the pid. I run a shell with command of "taskkill /F /pid " adding the pid of the process. I have a problem that sometimes ...
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Why would Activity Monitor and iotop give completely different output re: Disk Activity?
I am trying to "rebuild" via DiskWarrior an external RAID0 startup drive… and it is "semi-stuck" on step 6.. but I have read that I should let it finish.. The strange thing is.. is that Activity ...
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Unidentified icon in Windows 7 task switcher
Recently this icon started to appear in my Windows 7 x64 task switcher (the one that is currenly selected in the screen shot below). It has no title and there is no visible window associated with this ...
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How to find uptime of a linux process
How do I find the uptime of a given linux process.
ps aux | grep gedit | grep -v grep
gives me a whole lot of information which includes the time at which the process was started.
I am specifically ...
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System and Interrupts causing high CPU
Under Process Explorer, I noticed that System -- and occasionally Interrupts -- are taking between 5% and 20% CPU constantly, for hours on end. This is resulting in weird video playback problems. ...
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Swapper Process?
What is the main purpose of the swapper process in Unix ?
Swapper process has the PID 0 and I guess it is the first process that loads. Can anyone throw more light on this topic or any references ...
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Does GNU/Linux counts processes and threads together
I want to limit the number of processes per user on my machine, with "/etc/security/limits.conf" and the nproc value.
I have read here
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atop like tool for OSX
I'm trying to debug some issues with my Mac. This machine is used as Continius Integration server. It stops responding from time to time. I think it could be some software issue, sins machine is ...
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Kill process by name and owner?
Before I look into reinventing the wheel and roll my own, is anyone aware of an application/utility that allows me to kill processes, filtering by both process name and process owner? Alternatively ...
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How to only show new processes in Activity Monitor?
Is there any way to make Activity Monitor only show new processes? Can you do this in Terminal instead?
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Good, lightweight GUI-based process monitor for Linux
I'd like a snappy GUI-based (I insist since people still want to propose console-based) application that can show me running processes and allow me to kill them, on Linux. It doesn't need to be as ...
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How do I find out any more information about file handles held open by the System process?
I have an app that writes data to a local disk file regularly. It always opens, writes, then closes the file. Recently I had an issue where it stopped writing data, and this was due to it being ...
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Chrome tab/process demanding too much; video quality drops
When I watch (stream) a long video, on NovaMov for example, it will eventually become jumpy/poorer in quality (as if it's laggy, although it could be fully loaded).
Is there anything I can do to ...
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How can I measure the amount of time a process is opened?
I would like to keep track of the amount of time a process is opened on Windows 7. Is there an utility that does this?
The process will be the process of a game or of an IM program. I want to program ...
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Imaging/graphics apps leave ghost processes
Summary
Recently put a clean install of Windows 7 x64 on a laptop. Now all imaging-related apps seem to hang on close, approx. one time out of every 10 runs.
Problem details
I close an imaging app ...
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Cannot end Windows 7 process, even tried ntsd
As descriebed in My VirtualBox virtual machine freezes, when I try to use the webcam, I end with a process which can't be deleted by taskmanger, pskill nor even ntsd, which was recommended here.
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Lifetime of the Symlinks from the File Descriptors in /proc/PID/fd/
How long do the symlinks form the File Descriptors in /proc/PID/fd/ are kept?
During the complete life of the process?
What about when this is a multi-threaded process?
Do I have the guaranty that ...
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How can I kill Firefox by console?
I know I can type:
ps -A | grep firefox
I get something like:
6818 ? 00:04:23 firefox
Now I can kill it by means of:
kill -9 6818
How can it be done in one command and how can ...
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How to suspend bash within bash
Is it possible to suspend a bash that was invoked by another bash? For example, if I use su to become a different user but want to switch back to my own user for a moment. For another example, in an ...
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Find out which process/app launched another process/app
I have a process that when I kill it (using process explorer), it just comes back after about 30 seconds.
Is there any way to find out which process is restarting the process I am killing (so I can ...
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Why does Unix deliver signals this way?
In Unix, when signals are posted, and the receiving process is running more than one thread, at first a thread is chosen to carry out the signal handling routine.
I don't understand why that is ...
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Instruction per Cycle vs Increased Cycle Count
Increasing either instruction per cycle or increase cycle count both are valid design choice for processor manufactures. I understand theory, but it would be much clearer if I had some real life ...
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ps: How can i recursively get all child process for a given pid
How can I get the entire process tree spawned by a given process displayed as a tree and only that tree i.e. no other processes?
The output could e.g. look like
4378 ? Ss 0:10 SCREEN
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Speed up explorer.exe boot time
My computer's boot time is way longer than I want it to be, so I ran some checks to see what slows down the booting process. I found out that explorer.exe takes over 30 seconds of cpu time on boot. Is ...
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Every new process takes 20 seconds to initiate internet connection
I am using Win 7 x64. Every process that I open (chrome / IE / outlook / etc.) takes about 20 seconds to connect to the internet, but only at the first connection they initiate. It just 'hangs' and ...
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ZoneAlarm 10 Firewall freezes applications
I have not had any problems with ZoneAlarm 9 Free Firewall, but 10 is a different matter.
Problem
Whenever I open an application requiring internet access, the following happens:
A ZoneAlarm ...
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IE9 development tools giving “Unable to attach to the process.” error
Notice: I have now rebuilt my machine to remove this bug, so I can no longer verify any answers.
I recently installed Internet Explorer 9, and activated the development tools by pressing F12;
I then ...
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Will a wget process continue to run after administrator is logged out?
I logged into a Windows 2008 server via remote desktop as Administrator and started a wget process which will take 24 hours to download 29 files.
If someone happens to log in during that time and ...
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How to run a process and completely detach it of its parent shell [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Leave bash script running on remote terminal while not logged in?
How do I detach a process from Terminal, entirely?
I'm running a program on a linux server that will ...
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How kill cp in Linux?
I see in:
ps aux
that exists process like:
cp file.txt /home/file.txt
This file is very big.
I try to kill like:
kill -9 12345
12345 is pid. But without success. What else I can do? What ...
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Stop a task from auto starting in Windows
At work, they have this stupid banner that starts up automatically when the user logs in. It isn't programmed well, gets in the way and is generally annoying, so I kill it through the Task Manager, ...
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Auto-terminate a Windows application after a given amount of time
I'm looking for a way for a user to launch a Windows application that will only run for a given amount of time, say an hour. After the hour is up, an alert window will pop up, saying "Program will be ...
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Why can't I shut down the avahi-daemon in Fedora Linux?
I'm using Fedora 16.
I shut down NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant (using service commands), but when I try:
sudo service avahi-daemon stop
or
sudo kill pid
it appears again instantly! How can ...
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Process monitor service in Windows
I need something that runs in the background as a service (Windows), watches defined process and when it crosses thresholds it restarts/stop/starts the process again? (similar functionality of rubygem ...
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How do I check if some one is accessing my computer from somewhere?
Here is a snap shot of my processes running on Windows XP
Is there anything suspicious?
How will you know if some one is accessing your computer remotely?
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Unix pkill error; does wily obstruct me killing the process?
I have two scripts on Unix; one that starts some processes and the other one for killing a process. At first, I ran the .sh without WILY in it and it worked perfectly; in this way, I could also ran my ...
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How to detect why I cannot delete directory?
I cannot delete empty directory, I would like to know why. That directory did contain movie that was being played by my custom player and it might somehow be still blocking the directory. however it ...
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Quitting dozens of the same process in OS X Terminal
Whenever I'm testing a python class I'm working on, I initiate and re-initiate python a lot to refresh the updates I make to the code. When I close the Terminal window later, I get a window that says ...
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Trying to kill processes by name, but remains one..why?
I'm trying to kill all my mysqld process. But remains one, why?
javier@javier-mbp:~$ ps aux | grep mysqld
root 913 0.0 0.0 4220 704 ? S 16:11 0:00 /bin/sh ...
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opendirectoryd consumes 40% of CPU
I have a MacBook Pro with Lion 10.7.2, 2.26 GHz CPU and 2GB DDR3 RAM.
If I call
top -o cpu
the /usr/libexec/opendirectoryd process consumes more than 40% of CPU.
$ ps aux | grep opend ...
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Why is csrss.exe running 169 times?
When I noticed that opening many tabs (10 to 20) in Google Chrome took an increased time with every new one I looked into Process Hacker and discovered 169 csrss.exe processes. I've never seen that ...
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Where do I find the TCP/IP stack in Process Explorer on Windows 7?
I was wondering, if the TCP/IP stack is part of the kernel or running as a service? Where do I find the TCP/IP stack in sysinternals ProcExp?
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Continuously monitor files opened/accessed by a process
lsof -p 12345 will list all the files opened by process whose pid is 12345 but only for a particular instant of time.
How can we continuously monitor a process from the start to end(until process is ...
