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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Free process management software to Start, Stop, Restart processes
I need a free software that can Start, Stop, Restart processes (actually console applications).
Currently I start those console apps using BAT files. It's not convenient. Here is an example of BAT ...
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what is this kicker process that shows up when i do top?
This morning when I came to my office i noticed the machine very slow so I did 'top' at the terminal and i see at least 50 process running and they are "kicker-3.4-reve"!!! I am using RedHat Linux
It ...
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Batch file - wait or quit if a process running
I have 2 small batch files that change the target location of a junction point (mkref /d), in order to switch between 2 iTunes libraries.
It works well, but I would like it to stop if iTunes is ...
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Good (preferably free), easy to use, attractive flowchart software
While there is no shortage of awesome concept mapping or mindmapping software, I'm left rather cold by the offerings of flowchart related software or apps available.
I'm looking for something that ...
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bash process uses 90% CPU, comes back on computer restart
I’ve replaced the old HDD of my late 2008 unibody MacBook (8 GB of RAM, running OS X 10.7.4) with an OCZ Vertex 3 SSD. After doing this, I've installed Lion and restored my data from a Time Machine ...
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How can I be alerted when a process goes idle (that is, its CPU usage reaches zero for a sustained period on Windows 7?
How can I be alerted when a process goes idle (that is, its CPU usage reaches zero for a sustained period on Windows 7?
Essentially, I have a long running batch process that is pegging one of the ...
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Process Sent and Received Messages
I'm using Mac OS X, I noticed 2 columns in Activity Monitor: Sent Msgs & Rcvd Msgs
I was wondering what is the meaning of them and what kind of messages are they, Are they network packets or ...
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Process Sent and Received Messages [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Process Sent and Received Messages
I'm using Mac OS X, I noticed 2 columns in Activity Monitor:
Sent Msgs & Rcvd Msgs
I was wondering what is the meaning of them ...
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How can I ensure that exactly one process is running on a given processor/core?
I would like to do this so I can accurately speed test my processes, and just to be able to have the illusion of control.
Maybe I want to reserve one processor for special programs. Maybe I want to ...
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Catching forked subproceses
I'm running a game in wine that requires pasuspender to kill pulseaudio so the game can run on alsa.
However, it looks like the script and wine itself are forking separate processes so that ...
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Program to monitor another program
Is it possible to monitor one program from/using another program. Is encapsulation is necessary for full bench-marking?
Say, I want to monitor the responsiveness of a program or how much memory/cpu ...
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Is there Windows utility to find out which process is sending UDP packets?
The problem is: Using Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4, I can know which process created a TCP connection, but Microsoft Network Monitor cannot report which process sends UDP packets.
I'm a network ...
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is it possible to monitor and log “read from Windows clipboard” events?
processes like Notepad or browser have legit reasons for accessing clipboard in short bursts, typically associated with keyboard and mouse activity. The vast majority of processes have no business ...
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Determining the URL of an active Chrome process via Task Manager
Given the following screenshot as an example:
How would you determine which subprocess of Chrome is chewing the most memory? Is this possible with Windows Task Manager (specifically on Windows 7, ...
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Windows 7 - Intermittently processes will not close when the app closes
I have a user I am supporting who has the strangest issue. There are 2 problem applications, Word 2010 and a scanning program called ScandallPro. Intermittently (and at least once a day), she will ...
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What does 'select processes without controlling ttys' mean?
For the following command:
ps x
What does x achieve? The documentation specifies 'select processes without controlling ttys' but I don't understand what this means.
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renice-ing Xorg for slow computers; will I expect an increase in responsiveness?
I love my netbook, but unfortunately it can struggle to perform under a heavy load. Changing windows, moving the mouse etc can have considerable lag. If I set the nice value on Xorg to default to ...
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have python process run similar to how redis process does
When I start my redis server with redis-server, even after I close the terminal or logout the process will still be there when I log back in, but my python server python server.py will turn off if I ...
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zombie processes (defunct) problems in my Linux
I came cross an annoying problem lately. I have a set of scripts which will manage and start a certain number of parallel processes on about 10 Linux servers running Redhat. A file is used to keep all ...
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win 7 something is causing excessive disk usage, maybe chrome?
On my Win 7 computer, this happens:
I work for several hours without problems, also using Chrome
Suddenly, just after refreshing a page in Chrome, disk starts being
used excessively
(here I can ...
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How to stop running download process by CURL?
I forgot to use > filename after curl operation.
linux console is giving contiguously garbage data(hopefully downloading and displaying the content on console).
How can we stop this process (ctrl-c ...
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rogue process consumes too much memory in linux
I was going through the output of top when i saw a process listed as
pine -i
I don't have pine in my system !
Then i got into proc and did a
`ls -l /proc/9827/exe`
9827 is the process id. It ...
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Setting ssh to terminate remote process upon disconnection
I have been running some interactive shell scripts on a remote server.
Sometimes the ssh connection is lost, and I want the process on the other machine to die in such condition.
Can I configure ...
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SVCHost using 100% CPU in Windows 7
I am having a problem with Windows 7. When I boot up, the CPU jumps to 100% execution for about 10-15 minutes. During this time, it is really slow, and if I play any music, the songs play slowly and ...
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net1.exe, net.exe, cmd.exe, cconhost.exe SPAM
I get spammed by these applications: net1.exe, net.exe, cmd.exe, cconhost.exe
What should i do ?
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Find user running windows process
How can I see which user is running sqlserver process in a windows 7 machine? I need to know this in order to change some permissions. I opened the task manager but the list is almost empty, maybe ...
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What is the logic behind Linux nice values?
Wouldn't it be nice if nice values in Linux were switched:
-20 = low priority
+20 = high priority
$ renice -p +5 # would get more CPU time and
$ renice -p -5 # less
Why was it selected to be ...
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What command line options are available to svchost.exe?
It seems the only command line option used by Windows for svchost.exe is -k, followed by the group name which svchost needs to start for a given service. Yet, use of a command line option indicates ...
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Zombie process using 100% CPU
A zombie process, which should not be using any resources (RAM and CPU), is hogging up an entire core on my 8-core 64-bit Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop installation.
This is the output of ps -el|grep Z:
F S ...
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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 ...
