A process is a binary program running continuously on a computer (until terminated) which is managed by the operating system.
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Application for monitoring all applications that are using the internet in Mac OS X
Can anyone introduce me a Mac OS X application that monitors all network activity such as what applications are now connected to the internet and how much bandwidth they use (I mean show bandwidth ...
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Leave bash script running on remote terminal while not logged in?
I have a bash script that takes several hours to run. While it's running, I would like to do other things, which may involve logging out or disconnecting from the internet (my script runs network ...
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How can I log my hard drive activity by program?
I am using Windows XP and am looking for a utility that can tell me the percentage of hard drive activity a program is using.
Basically, I'm looking for something like Task Manager and its ability ...
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Multiple chrome.exe processes in Task Manager
I know that each new tab on Google Chrome have its own process, but I have 14 chrome.exe processes running actually as I can see it on the Task Manager, and only two tabs are opened on Google Chrome. ...
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Why does WMI Provider Host (WmiPrvSE.exe) keep spiking my CPU?
I generally keep my laptop on 24x7, and at the end of the day it's really annoying to have my thighs burnt because over overheating.
The overheating seems to be a result of WMI Provider Host ...
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Screen a running process
Sometimes I forget to run a program under a screen session and can't stop it in the middle, and I know it's going to take long.
Is there a way to screen an already running process without restarting ...
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How to change I/O priority of a process or thread in Win7?
Process Explorer is able to show the effective IO priority of a given thread, but not change it. Seeing as IO priority support is a comparatively new feature, most programs don't set their own IO ...
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Cannot end Windows 7 process, even tried pskill
I am having a problem where processes are hanging and absolutely refuse to die. I have tried using the task manager and pskill from the console (with admin rights) and while the program will state ...
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Linux process to background - relogin - how to bring process back to foreground?
I start a process, put it in the background running, then log out, then log in again, and want to bring the process to front again. I've looked in "ps aux" for the PID, but it won't be put in the ...
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Killing an unresponsive process [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Kill window or application just like linux do
Cannot Kill Process in Vista 64
I had closed an instance of utorrent. The task no longer appears in Applications, ...
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Why is System process listening on Port 80?
I am running Windows 7 RC1. I have multiple issues getting IIS to work on my system and today when I installed a new application and I tried to load it using http:\localhost\MyApplication I get ...
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What does the svchost.exe process do?
On all Windows machines there seem to be a number of svchost.exe processes running. What do this processes do and why are so many running?
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What is the task “java” (parent process “launchd”) doing on MacOS X?
I have a process called "java" showing up in my Activity Monitor that uses a good amount of CPU (4 - 8% average, 20 - 80% on occasion). It reports that "launchd" is its parent process.
Any idea what ...
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Linux: Is there something similar to “top” for I/O?
My disk often is utilized, but top (and htop, a custom replacement) show nothing suspicious.
Is there a way to sort processes by I/O (more specific: disk) utilization?
EDIT
Found out using iotop ...
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Easy way to find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I delete a ‘locked’ file?
How can I find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows?
For instance if you are trying to delete a folder ...
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How do I find out what processes are accessing the hard disk in a GNU/Linux-based system?
I'm looking for the equivalent to top for disk access, so I can tell which process(es) are currently reading and/or writing to disk. I'm currently using Ubuntu, but I imagine there's a standard tool ...
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What is the 'conhost.exe' process that shows up in Task Manager?
The process conhost.exe started showing up on Windows 7, and searching Google doesn't reveal an explanation of what this process is and why it shows up.
What is the conhost.exe process?
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Difference between “a=b” and “export a=b” in bash
What's the difference between:
a=b
and
export a=b
In bash?
I understand that they both define environment variables, but I don't fully understand the difference.
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Is there any way to set the priority of a process in Mac OS X?
I have a background process running at 100% CPU on Mac OS X. All other applications are very slow because of it.
I'd like to set this process to take no more than 50% so that my applications can run ...
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Find out what program runs in the java.exe process
I have a problem: always when my computer starts, there is a java.exe process listening in the port 7676. I want to find out what it is to be able to delete it.
Is there any way that I can find that ...
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How to monitor and kill a process automatically on windows by process name
Is there a program or utility to monitor the running process and automatically kill specific processes? My work laptop has a whole bunch of useless crap that I cannot uninstall. Some of these ...
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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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Good (preferably free), easy to use, attractive flowchart software [closed]
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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How to free up memory “fully hibernating” a process?
Similar to this: How to "hibernate a process" under Linux/Windows?
Are there any methods to hibernate a process in a way that it doesn't stay in memory? E.g.: If I don't want to use ...
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How to permanently “renice” a process on Mac OS X (or iOS, etc)?
I use a nice (free) process manager called ATMonitor for Mac OS X that has a lot of cool hidden features, one of which is being able to click on a running process and set the "renice" from +20 (less ...
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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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Keep outlook 2010 open [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make Outlook 2010 minimize when I try to close it?
I want to "disable" the ability to close Outlook2010. I always "close" it instead of minimizing it.
What are ...
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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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How do you find the parent process of a zombie process?
How do you find the parent process of zombie processes?
When the child process is something where the parent is not entirely obvious...
Is there some way to list processes in tree format or ...
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How to limit a process to a single CPU core?
How do you limit a single process program run in a Windows environment to run only on a single CPU on a multi-core machine?
Is it the same between a windowed program and a command line program?
...
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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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Why sometimes Windows cannot kill a process?
Right now I'm trying to Run/Debug my application in Visual Studio, but it cannot create it because the last instance of the app.vshost.exe is still running. Then, by using the Task Manager I'm trying ...
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How can I know the absolute path of a running process?
If I have multiple copies of the same app on the disk, and only one is running, as I can see with ps, how can I know the absolute path to distinguish from the others?
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Kill a process with a specific “Command Line” from command line
(Feel free to edit the title if you can think of something better)
Is there a command line utility that kills all processes with a specific command line?
E.g. kill all processes named "java.exe" with ...
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Auto-restart process on crash
I have a Java server process which runs native code and the possibility of the entire process crashing due to a problem in native code is always there. Is there any mechanism offered by *nix operating ...
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See all information about all processes, daemons, etc. running on Mac OS X
I like to view information about all processes (including every daemon etc etc) that are running on Mac OS X.
I use:
sudo ps -A
Update: I also tried Activity Monitor as suggested by Alex.
My ...
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How to disable jusched.exe on Windows 7 64-bit?
I have recently purchased a new laptop from an OEM with Windows 7 64-bit. This system came pre-installed with (among other stuff) the Java Runtime Environment (64bit). This has put the "jusched.exe" ...
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How can I tell Windows to always start certain binaries with low priority?
I want to demote the priority of a number of processes that are auto-started on my corporate XP machine. Is there a way that I can tell WinXP to always start a binary with low priority?
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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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What is cmd's equivalent to Bash's & (ampersand) for running a command without waiting for it to terminate?
In bash:
java -jar jarfile1.jar &
java -jar jarfile2.jar &
The ampersand lets you launch the first program, and then do another one while the first is still running.
How do I do this in ...
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OS X “death spiral”? Can't start new processes, eventually becomes unusable
I have this weird situation crop up every once in a while.
My OS X (Snow Leopard) system will simple stop being able to do anything "new". It can't start any new processes (like, for instance, a new ...
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How to stop a bat process on Windows?
I have BAT file running in background on Windows which lasts about ten minutes. Now I want to stop it while it's running, but I can't find its name in the process-list in the task manager. So how can ...
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How to disable google updater, running in background as googleupdate.exe? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to stop the Google Update background tool?
Hello,
How to disable google updater, running in background as googleupdate.exe ?
I tried Googling but none worked me ...
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setting up process profiles on ubuntu
I was wondering if it is possible to set up profiles for my ubuntu laptop such that:
Disable apache/mysql/postgresql if running on batterymode
Disable all processes that are attempting to connect to ...
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Why is the CPU usage reported by top in Linux over 100%?
I've seen the CPU usage go over 100%. How is this possible? Is it because I have four CPU cores, so 100% isn't really the max?
Also, when a program does this, what else can I do in top besides using ...
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kill -9 programs but they still hang on
I tried to kill all my background jobs submit earlier under KUbuntu by
kill -9 $(jobs -p)
Although this command immediately gave the message like
[1] Killed myjob1
[2] Killed ...
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Changing Windows locales on a per-process basis
Is there any way to change the Windows locale only for a particular program?
I have one or two programs that don't work correctly for non-English (U.S.) locales and would like to work around theirs ...
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Is there a windows command that returns the list of 64 and 32 process?
I am looking for a solution to locate which process are running over 64 and which ones on 32 bits on my Windows Seven 64 system, there is a simple windows shell command available to do that???
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Find bandwidth used by process
Something is using a lot of bandwidth according to iStat menu. But I can't figure out what's doing it. lsof -i only shows what's connected but not how much bandwidth is being used
Please do no link ...
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Using SASS on my Debian server
Ok here's a quick question. I have a debian server with sass (driven by ruby) installed. To compile a sass file to a css file, yo do:
sass --watch style.scss:style.css
If I run this on my server ...
