A process is a binary program running continuously on a computer (until terminated) which is managed by the operating system.
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Mountain Lion: How to have a process killed every 8 hours?
So there is a process I see in my activity monitor and I can kill it. Due to whatever, another process is set to restart the killed process every 8 hours and it can not be changed. I am looking for a ...
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What's a reliable technique for killing background processes on script termination?
I use shell scripts to react to system events and update status displays in my window manager. For example, one script determines the current wifi status by listenining to multiple sources:
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Saving content from unresponsive exe
I have a notepad.exe running that is unresponsive. I would like to save the contents. Can I somehow dump the process' current state and copy my text content from it?
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Find out what started a process using “services.exe”
Say I have a process called "EvilMalware.exe" that keeps getting restarted (i.e. I kill it and it is restarted after a few seconds).
I looked up the process that starts it and it is ...
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How to list a process tree on windowss?
I know in linux it's very usefull the pstree command and something like that is what i'm looking for... but how to make a detailed process list (tree) on windows terminal?
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Find what process started another process
Say I have process explorer showing me that I have an app called EvilAppsRUs.exe running.
I kill it, but it just starts up again. I have checked to make sure it does not have a service (by right ...
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Can't kill a sleeping process
I don't seem to be able to kill -9 a process which is in an interruptible sleep (S) state:
[root@jupiter ~]# ps -elf | grep yum
4 S root 16790 1 0 75 0 - 73779 - Jan15 ? ...
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List all my working processes in Linux
pgrep is the command used to return a process ID. Now I would like to see the process ID of my working processes rather than giving a single process — how can I do that?
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In process synchronization, what is a Monitor?
There are lots of information in the internet for Semaphore, Mutex, etc. But as far as I've searched, there isn't a clear info available on Monitors.
I know that a Mutex helps in Mutual exclusion ...
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Grant permission to manage another users processes
I have userA and userB who start processes:
userA@server:~$ ./some_command.sh &
[1] 30889
I then want userC to be able to manage those processes (suspending, resuming, terminating, and ...
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Interfacing strace with Process Name instead of PID
How do I implement a wrapper script pstrace in bash that changes the interface of
[sudo] strace -c -p [PID]
to
[sudo] pstrace -c -p [PROCESS-NAME]
similar to how
killall [PROCESS-NAME]
is ...
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Library functions are always implemented using system calls?
We know that system calls are requests by a process for a service from an operating system's kernel.[1] I'm asking this question because I wanted to know if a process can really generate a signal on ...
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flag to 'ps' command that can filter on arguments?
I know the argument "-C" which can filter on the command.
But in my scenario I may have some processes with the same process name and different args.
How to filter on these args?
(I know I could ...
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Sort top 10 processes by the number of threads each created in Linux
I have a Linux/Debian server running: postgresql, tomcat. Sometimes, I can't access server by ssh.
When I open ssh connection with my server, I can type in my log-in id(root) and password, but when ...
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Does the kernel process need to save something when switching to user mode? [closed]
According to my professor,
"while switching from user mode to kernel mode, the status of the user process has to be saved completely. But when switching from kernel mode to user mode, nothing has ...
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What is session leader in `ps ax`
See the command bellow
# ps ax | grep bitlbee
2271 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/bitlbee -s mysql -c /root/config.conf
3930 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/bitlbee -s mysql -c /root/config.conf
See ...
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Can a single process be executed in two or more processors in a multiprocessor system?
I have heard that one processor can work on only one process at a time. Is this true? If so, then how can a single process be executed in more than one processors at a time? Is this even possible?
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What does the C in Cid stand for in winDbg, kdbg and livekd?
If execute the !process command in the windwos debugger you get output in this format:
PROCESS fffffa8006bff940
SessionId: 0 Cid: 03ec Peb: 7f79ae1f000 ParentCid: 02e4
DirBase: 084ed000 ...
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How to kill all processes with the same name?
I want to kill all processes with the same name that belong to a user,
for example:
$ps -u user_1
2345 myapp
2346 myapp
2347 myapp
2348 myapp2
2349 myapp
I want to kill all "myapp" processes that ...
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Escape the death of the OOM killer in Linux
Doing a bit of research I found it it is possible to tune or even make certain processes immune against the OOM killer by poking a value into /proc/pid/oom_adj
I do of course need to find pid for my ...
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“Access denied” when trying to end a process on Windows 8
I get "Access denied" when trying to end a process on Windows 8.
From Kill process (windows 8) issues on Stack Overflow, I've read:
The process may have a thread active in kernel mode that is not ...
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Super Slow Visual Studio
My Visual Studio 2010 professional is running super slowly. (This is during normal operation, not debugging or anything) I checked all the processes that were started by it in a program called Process ...
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Measuring how much battery charge a process uses in Windows
As battery life in most laptops is naturally limited to a few hours, is there any way to know how much battery a process (i.e. Microsoft Word or GNS.exe) is using? Like process A is using this much ...
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How can I start a process over SSH such that it will continue to run after I disconnect?
XBMC occasionally crashes on my media server. It's a pain to bring down the media server because I have to manually restart a number of services each time. I'd like to be ablle to start XBMC from an ...
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Does running the 'find' command fork a new process?
When I type find in unix a shell, is a new process created (to handle the find operation) or not? And why?
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Is this a bug in top?
This command line:
top -l 3 -n 10 -o "vprvt"
For some reason there are two processes that consistently creep up in the second sample's output regardless of their actual VPRVT size, and they do not ...
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Detect what process is changing a file on Windows
Is there a way to detect what process is changing a file on Windows 7?
I know procmon is a great tool but couldn't figure it out how to do it or even if it's possible.
The problem is that I have a ...
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sendmail doesn't limit number of processes
I've prepared script monitoring number of sendmail processes and I realized that number of processes exceed value allowed in configuration.
My sendmail process limit is set to 300:
sendmail.cf:
O ...
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Chrome has many processes listed [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Multiple chrome.exe processes in Task Manager
I am a Firefox user. I installed and started using Google Chrome for the past few days and I like it. I use Windows 7.
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What's the difference between an application, a process and a service?
I know that an application is a program that you interact with on the desktop, but what exactly are processes and services?
Are services classified as processes or is it the other way round?
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Change GPU priority of a process under Windows
Is it possible to change the GPU priority of a certain process under Windows 7 (and older versions if possible)?
Changing the CPU priority doesn't seem to have any effect on the GPU usage. I have a ...
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How to reload the listing under “Playback devices”?
I have my computer (Windows 7 32bit) connected to an AVR via HDMI. If I put the AVR on standby and then switch it ON again, under "Playback devices" list, "NVIDIA High Definition Audio" changes to ...
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Add or Remove Programs process name
Does anyone know what is the process name of 'Add or Remove Programs' applet? I'm using Windows XP + SP2. It hung up and I would like to kill it.
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linux: per-process monitor, every 10 minutes, with history access
I really didn't know a better way to ask my question, hence you get a horribly named question.
I will explain what i want to do, maybe that will help you help me.
I would like to have my linux ...
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How to start a local server and open it in a browser from a shell script
I have a test suite which runs in a browser (using QUnit, though that's unimportant). The test suite requires a local server running on a particular port. Running the tests currently involves a few ...
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Why I can decrease the process's priority by using nice() function with a typical user permission(except ROOT) in linux?
As I understand every user in linux can change the every process's priority by using nice and renice commands. Also I know that the all users just can increase the priority of processes and the only ...
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How do I ensure a process is running, even if it kills itself? (it needs to be restarted then)
I'm using linux. I want a process (an irc bot) to run every time I start the computer. But I've got a problem: The network is bad and it disconnects often, so I need to manually restart the bot a few ...
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Why does explorer restart automatically when I kill it with Process.Kill?
If I kill explorer.exe like this:
private static void KillExplorer()
{
var processes = Process.GetProcessesByName("explorer");
Console.Write("Killing Explorer... ");
foreach (var process ...
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How do I keep my python process running after I close SSH? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I detach a process from Terminal, entirely?
I am running a python script that takes hours to run on a machine I am ssh-ing into. When I terminate my SSH session ...
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Webserver process resistant to Ctrl+Z
I'm trying out different Python web-microframeworks, such as cherrypy and flask (under Mac OSX).
When I end the process with CTRL+Z usually the processes lives on. Why does the shutdown signal not ...
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Mac os x 10.7.4 process limit
I have a 709 max user process. I want to double it, or more.
First: ulimit
> ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size ...
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is it secure to send “ProcDump” file result to someone?
I have been asked to send ProcDump http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900.aspx result for analyze.
This includes such option:
-ma Write a dump file with all process memory.
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How to automatically restart a linux background process if it fails?
I have a process which is executed by init.d script on the background. Eg:
case "$1" in
start)
/bin/myprocess &
stop)
killall myprocess
restart)
killall ...
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How can I identify a mystery tray icon in Windows 7?
A new icon has appeared in my tray in Windows 7 recently - a black square with a white A in it:
It doesn't have any tooltip or right-click context menu so I haven't been able to identify which ...
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How can I unbind a UDP port that has no entry in lsof?
On my Mac, I have a UDP port that is "already in use", but doesn't have an associated process:
sudo netstat -na | grep "udp.*\.500\>"
shows
udp4 0 0 192.168.50.181.500 *.* ...
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Cannot terminate process, “already terminated”
On Windows 8, I regularly get processes into a state where I can't terminate them. Skypekit.exe seems to be the process that's most likely to trigger that issue, but other processes can do that, too.
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Process is shutting down when started by script and special user
I have a situation where I want to use a script during a build process which stops a process and starts it again after updating its files as a last step.
The process is started via a build system ...
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virtual pages associated with each running process
How can I list out all processes that are currently running on my system, and print the virtual pages allocated to it and number of page faults associated with each process?
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What is the RuntimeBroker.exe process in Windows 8?
I was looking through my Task Manager today and saw something called Runtime Broker running:
I've never seen this in previous versions of Windows.
What is it? What does it do?
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How to monitor resource utilization by apps in Windows 8? [closed]
I read that letting apps run in the background, they will simply fade away and not use resources. I wanted to know how long is a general fade away? Is there a way to control it? Can I monitor this ...
