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MySQL Process Big
Ok, so I don't know if this is a repeat question so I'm sorry if it is (I couldn't find anything like it after searching =/)
My server seems to be running what seems to me a larger than normal mysql ...
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Postfix server begins send spam immediately after starting
I've installed a postfix server on a debian os & also I've installed apache 2.0 with php on same machine
Several days ago my server begun to send a lot of spam messages via postfix. I understood ...
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request tracker 4 running standalone and number of child processes
I'm running request tracker 4 standalone, which means with not any http server in front.
My problem is that once I launch the server as in:
/usr/bin/perl -w ...
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What could cause a PHP script run as a cron job to end up in D state?
My server is running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) and I'm having a weird issue. The server is hosting a large website which is used for data collection. The website is in PHP and uses Zend Framework. ...
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How can sleeping processes in “top” be using a percentage of CPU?
When we run top we occasionally see a sleeping, "S", process which is using %CPU; I would expect all sleeping processes to use 0% CPU since they are not active. I would expect only running, "R", ...
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How do I restart a process someone else is using
I'm pretty new to ops so please don't mind if use the incorrect terms.
I have a program that runs on another box. I need to restart the program after I deploy code to it, via capistrano. I tried ...
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How to get process not responding on remote server with Powershell
I don't understand, responding is empty on remote serveur.
Get-Process explorer -ComputerName vcass1 | select name,id,responding
Name Id Responding
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What are the taskkill.exe exit codes?
Is there a list of known exit codes (errorlevel) for TaskKill.exe? Does this vary with the Windows version? I'm mostly concerned with Windows 7 and server 2008r2.
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Can many low priority processes have effect on speed of other higher prioritized processes on the server?
So here is the situation:
We have a couple of linux servers which we use for our work. So one of the users has a script running (just for fun, no work), which distribute a ton of other scripts to all ...
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How do I prevent a nohup process from being killed when ssh connection fails
I'm having an odd problem. I have a server process that gets started with nohup, and persists across logout and re-login just fine. However if I leave myself logged in and then get the "broken pipe" ...
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List environment variables of a running process on AIX without character limit
Today I was trying to debug an issue where a process was not picking up the correct environmental variable. It took us hours before we realized that it wasn't picking up the correct variable.
I tried ...
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Count how many rsync process are running on unix machine
I am using Unix machine
$ uname -a
SunOS machine-name 5.10 Generic_127112-11 i86pc i386 i86pc
How would I get the number of rsync process running on my unix box.
I tried
$ ps -ef | grep rsync
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Tracking down high CPU core utilisation
I have a system with 24 cores and for some reason only the first core is at 100% utilisation while the others are in the range of 20-25%.
I would like to get all processes that are running on the ...
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Comprehensively List HTTP Requests (IPs, URLs, etc)
Is there there a way to show a list of apache/httpd processes with their pids and some information about the request? Like request url, any params, domain, internal/external IP address, etc.
I've ...
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Why “jobs -p | kill -n 15” doesn't work?
I'm very new to Linux. And as a matter of fact I use Cygwin now and not Linux itself.
I'm trying to install RVM (Ruby Version Manager).
I was doing rm -r ./.rvm -i command. I wanted to remove .rvm ...
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Server processes stall for a few seconds, how can we find the issue?
We have a fairly large VPS running our custom server code (not web servers but game servers), at random times the server seems to stall for a few seconds, how can we track the down the thread / ...
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Sendmail bounce mails stuck in queue
I'm now managing an old mail server based on Sendmail:
# cat /etc/issue
Lineox Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2)
Kernel \r on an \m
# uname -a
Linux myme1 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu ...
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FTP/IIS Error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
In IIS 7.5 When trying to get current log files using CMD FTP client it gives error
550 error: "The file cannot be accessed because it is in use by another process"
Checked processes using procmon ...
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SQL, Installation process, my.ini
Recently i decided to install apache + php + mysql separately from each other instead using one of the packets such as wamp,xampp,zend server,etc..., So far i installed apache server with php engine, ...
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chkconfig vs /etc/inittab
I had a look at what chkconfig and /etc/inittab - from what I could see both does the same something.
If I am wrong, what is the different and which one I should use for specific requirement?
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find command from PID
Is it possible to find the command line of a running process with its pid? the output of /proc/pid/cmdline seems that it removes the space character to it is hard to read the output.
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Top shows md127_raid1 with high CPU load?
I have a new server, when I use "top" to see busy processes I usually see
md127_raid1
either at the top or close to the top
What is this process doing? How can I easily verify that the raid is ...
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How to get /proc/[pid]/cmdline to contain command arguments?
I am running into an issue where some of my Ubuntu/Debian servers do not show the arguments passed to rake in either top or ps. I have tracked this problem down to a variation in output given by ...
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Ensure an application starts logged as a user in a server
I need to ensure an application run on a server alway, as a service do, but for some reason I can't create a real window service. I would like to have this app running as an user with its own desktop ...
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how do I kill these from ssh? [closed]
root 813251 813235 0 Feb02 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -x /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/update_db_cache && /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/update_db_cache
root 813265 813251 ...
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mod_fcgid error tied in with server lagg?
im relatively new to running my own server and my host don't seem to be giving me up advice or help on the matter either.
I run a very popular website and after doing some twitter and fb posts to ...
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Is it possible to get zombie process exit status from shell?
If i execute 'ps' command in shell, i can get some processes marked as '' - they are exited, but parent process don't receive they exit status yet. Sometimes, while debugging network apps, i need to ...
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Rotate a file that's open and being written at all times
I have an linux application that continually writes logging information into a log file, eg. /var/log/application.log. As the application does not rotate the file automatically, this log file can ...
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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 have a web app running as userC that manages those processes (suspending, resuming, terminating, ...
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apache restart: could not bind to adress 0.0.0.0:80
I have a very interesting symptom on one of our webservers.
We have a watchdog running, that restarts the apache Process when it hangs.
But apache is not able to restart. If i try restarting it ...
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how to see process status with full details
I run the script - my_script.ksh as process with 5 long arguments
on my solaris/linux machine ( example 1 ) ,
Later I verify the process by
ps -ef | grep my_script.ksh
I don't understand ...
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Interfacing strace with Process Name instead of PID
How do I implement a wrapper script pstrace in bash that changees 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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How can I give a running process priority for bandwidth usage on Windows?
I found myself accidentally starting two large uploads, and since they are single BLOBs, I cannot easily stop/start them, potentially loosing much time. However, I prefer one of those processes to get ...
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How do you force a process to flush the data written to an open file descriptor under Linux?
I have a binary process (with no sources available) running on an embedded Linux system. The process opens a log file (/tmp/dmaosd.log) where it logs what it's doing.
The problem is the log gets ...
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starting a process unix
When issuing the following command:
ps -ef | grep queue
I get a list of 5 processes running.
root 10001 1 0 2012 pts/5 02:22:04 /usr/local/perl/bin/perl /usr/local/cpi/sss/enroll_req ...
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Server Lifecycle But Still Providing Unidentified Services [closed]
I have this older HP ProLiant server that needs to be lifecycled, but there are still some services that are apparently running on it. There are only a few workstations that are being serviced by this ...
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Is there a benefit to managing programs with a process manager instead of with init.d?
I'm using Redis, Memcached, and Nginx, to be specific, and Supervisor as the process manager, but any general information is helpful as well.
Each of the aforementioned programs when apt-get ...
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Cron jobs running twice - Ubuntu server 12.04
I have a couple of simple cron jobs running under root. However, they seem to be running twice, and I can't figure out why. No other users have any cron jobs running and the the only cronfile is for ...
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Overhead of many php-fpm processes on Linux?
I'm migrating the configuration of a webserver that runs PHP applications using PHP-FPM behind nginx. The server has about 40-50 (and growing) vhosts on it. The server is a single CPU VM with 1GB of ...
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Manage a PHP background process
When you have a PHP background process running, what are recommended approaches to:
1/ Monitor that the process is alive and/or automatically launch a new one if it dies
2/ Make sure that there are ...
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Server freeze restarted quickly so how do I find what went wrong?
I have a SQL SERVER DB running on a windows server 2008 (VMWare)
Yesterday I could not RDP to it so I ended some RDP sessions which were left logged in. This seemed to solve the problem.
However last ...
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Why are my uWSGI processes dying immediately?
I'm using Supervisor and the uWSGI Emperor mode. When I set limit-as to 512 (MB), workers die instantly (respawn, die, respawn, die, every 3/4 of a second or so):
[uwsgi]
workers = 4
threads = 40
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Output average CPU usage by COMMAND during the last X minutes of command top
In my top command different processes, various php processes, a lot of httpd processes and a mysql process.
I want to output the average cpu usage of each of those processes and group them by ...
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My linux server “Number of processes created” and “Context switches” are growing incredibly fast
I have a strange behaviour in my server :-/. Is a OpenVZ VPS (I think is OpenVZ, because /proc/user_beancounters exists and df -h returns /dev/simfs drive. Also ifconfig returns venet0). When I do cat ...
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linux/solaris kill many proccess with one command
Is it possible to kill all find process with one command?
I do not want to kill each process as kill -9 25295 , kill -9 11994 , etc.. Rather, what I want is a simple way or command that kill all find ...
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Run Python script at startup using upstart
I'm trying to create an upstart script to run a python script on startup. In theory it looks simple enough but I just can't seem to get it to work. I'm using a skeleton script I found here and ...
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Linux released memory
If My process allocates some big memory and then deallocates, would top or gnome-system-monitor show that my memory usage of that process decreased ? or kernel will still reserve that memory for that ...
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Ignoring fork-bomb in Ubuntu [closed]
I got an homework assignment to write a program that checks how many process a user can create (working in Ubuntu). I wrote the code which seems fine in theory. The problem is that when I run it, the ...
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how to find suspicious process details and its command line arguments
On my Linux server, i am getting a suspicious perl process, which is trying to send spam from my server, using a perl script. Here is the ps -aux output.
apache 10078 0.0 0.0 4028 705 pts/1 ...
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Process listed as 8 character short name in Task Manager
I have a couple of servers with a process that regularly gets stuck. We kill this process with a vbs script that runs the taskkill command (among a couple other things). The issue is that the ...
