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An instance of a running computer program.

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IIS, application domains, pools, processes and threads, high level understand

Was hoping if someone could be all these things into perpective for me. This is to better understand operatig systems in general, but also specifically how it applies to IIS. How to application ...
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how to kill a zombie process?

I got a two processes during the network drive failure. 1 D 0 1199 1 0 80 0 - 19101 wait_o pts/21 00:00:01 rsync 1 Z 0 1226 1199 0 80 0 - 0 exit pts/21 00:00:00 rsync ...
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Checking if process has not been running for a certain period of time

What's good "ghetto process monitor" without installing any additional software besides cron and some standard UNIX tools? I.e. check in a shell script if a certain process has died and been dead for ...
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Apache process keeps running after closing browser

When I run a PHP script through browser ( HTTP connection) the PID is printed for debugging, but when this request is closed by clicking the browser's Stop button, or closing this browser tab, I still ...
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finding the bottleneck

I have a process running that is opening TIF files. Each TIF file is just one regular page and they are maybe 100 kB each. Every time he opens a TIF file it tries to read a barcode in a specific area ...
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Django WSGI segfaults when importing setproctitle module

I want to use the python setproctitle module to update the process name of a python WSGI worker process when it starts working on a request. (This is to try to track down what URLs are using all the ...
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Seeing when was the last time a process ran in linux

Looking at top output on my linux server, I see a root owned process that is always in S mode whenever I look. How can I find out when was the last time it actually ran on a cpu and did something? ...
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IP/process based bandwidth usage stats tool for windows

I wanted to track which process in my windows OS is eating up my bandwidth. I've found similar question for Linux. The tool mentioned in this answer is available for linux only I think. Is there any ...
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I see two jscv processes when invoked inside a service

I'm using tomcat's jscv to start the server ** as a service ** as the user tomcat (using jscv -user tomcat "lots of other parameters"). My server runs fine, however my question is: Is it bad that ...
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advisability of taskkill to close an application

Before running backups on the data from an application I need to close it cleanly without risking an improper shutdown and data corruption in a Paradox Database. How likely is that, if I use taskkill ...
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Without using a hypervisor, can a process be CPU throttled?

Using nice merely gives a "guideline" to the OS, not a hard requirement of priority (ie, if nothing else is begging for attention a nice level of 19 will utilize the full CPU). Is there a way to ...
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Log file is missing, how can I see that and what happened to it

A process identified by process id 2147 is running, but its logfile is nowhere to be found. The filesystem is ext3 and 100MB of space remains. nothing went wrong in process 2147. An lsof of process ...
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Is it possible to find information on apache_mod_php processes under /proc?

I have an apache2 server with apache2_mod_php installed. Is there a way for me to determine from the information under /proc (or elsewhere), which apache processes are currently executing the php ...
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famd process - lsof -i

I'm running a postfix machine with courier on it. I did a lsof -i and I got the following famd 1437 root 3u IPv4 3916 TCP localhost.localdomain:webster (LISTEN) Does anybody ...
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Start up a process before I log in? (linux)

I want to start up synergy on my suse box (gnome) automatically before (preferably, or after) I log in. How do I do this? I am a major Linux newbie and I tried writing the below on the last line of /...
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Synchronizing processes accross two servers

I have different processes that have to be run sequentially, but they are on two different servers. In short here what I want to do: 1. Run Process 1 on Server A 2. Run Process 2 on Server B 3. Run ...
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Oracle 9i Instance Memory Usage?

My question deals specifically with a way to tell how much memory is being used by an Oracle instance on a UNIX (Solaris) server. For example (I'm gonna really oversimplify this...), if I see that ...
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Multiple *Almost* identical processes on a Linux Server

What is the best way to run multiple Almost Identical Java processes on the same Linux server? Explanation of the environment: We are running a set of Java processes that provide a calculation grid....
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PostgreSQL processes and the signals to which they respond

For PostgreSQL 8.3 and later, what are the processes that make up the server and that respond to a query? What signals do the various processes respond to and what effect do the signals have? What ...
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Taskbar add-in on Windows XP - which process?

I'm putting together a package to deploy across multiple desktops, and I am trying to find out what process is calling a little taskbar add-in that attaches itself under Windows XP (Think language ...
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Postgres process spawns taking up CPU resources

Do you know why PostgreSQL would spin up a single process using a random command/name and then eat up CPU and memory? Killing the process does not effect the Django application which is utilizing ...
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Why atop shows high CPU but sum of individual processes %CPU far smaller?

How can the sum of processes' CPU-% usage be lower than the total CPU load, according to atop and top, please? I have a CPU reaching very high load (87%, for several hours) even though the sum of the ...
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Is it possible to umount a drive from where a program is running?

I want to run some confidential program on a cloud server. In order to protect it from being copied, I can encrypt it into a drive and mount the decrypted drive to run it. However I want to umount the ...
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Kill a running process inside a docker

I've run a find command on a very large folder inside my docker, and now it is stuck for more than an hour. I've tried to kill -9 the process, and kill the docker container with docker kill <...
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get process id of openvpn client in bash script

In a bash script I am starting openvpn as a client like this: #!/bin/bash conf_file=/etc/openvpn/blahblah.conf openvpn_pid_file="/var/run/openvpn-client/ovpnc.pid" command_line="/usr/bin/openvpn --...
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mysqld process deleted in lsof

running lsof on the server today I came across that mysqld was showing up as deleted. Does anyone came across something like this before, or there is an explanation about this. Is it a bug? lsof | ...
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CPU bumps to 100% in a PHP web application: How do find out what started it?

I have a Debian server (Amazon AWS) with a PHP web application that is used by hundreds of users. My CPU usage is almost always below 10%. Today around 12:00AM~ I had 2 insane jumps to 100% for ...
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Server load handling : One single batch request vs multiple requests

I was talking to a developer about different apis for create, update and delete and he was saying that it was better to have a single batch request to server to do operations like create, update and ...
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Reporting units for user and system CPU usage for individual process via collectd

I've been using the collectd:Process Plugin to monitor the per process metrics on a Linux server I'm running. It is just that there are no information about the units for which process use the CPU ...
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supervisord - automatically kills its spwaned processes

I am a new bee with Supervisord. And I am on Ubuntu. My problem is, I have a script to spawn java process using "exec java -cp ....." as the only line in the script. This particular java process is ...
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WS 2008 R2 get process by id

I have received the following message in the event viewer: A worker process with process id of '10088' serving application pool 'mypoolapp' has requested a recycle because the worker process ...
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Running intensive process on an operating LAMP server ; Risks on uptime?

Backstory: The server is running Ubuntu 14.04. We want to download and put on an external hard drive everything in Apache's document root as we are working on a complete redesign of the web site. (67 ...
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printing a children's full tree recursively in bash script

sry for not being familiar with question conventions since im new here. i want to write a script that prints the full children's tree recursively of a given pid. i got so far as: ps h -ef | awk '$...
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Jira/Confluence hogging memory with lots of processes

We've been working with Jira and Confluence on a Debian 6 VPS for a while now. Everything is fine as far as their daily use is concerned. The issue we are encountering now is that occasionally, the ...
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Is it possible to kill a process based on its environment, from the command line?

Scenario: Let's assume I have a script that spawns a few processes. There may be times when the script has to be aborted. Most times this is fine. However, sometimes one or two of the spawned ...
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how to identify a command prompt window?

Enviroment: windows 7 Currently i have machine on which we launch 2 batch files on system start up. These batch files internally run multiple programs by running on separate command prompt windows. ...
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Openwith.exe in process list multiple times unknown why

I know this is related to finding a program to use in win8+. I'm trying to migrate a server application from a 2008 R1 server to win2012 R2. Is there a way I can figure out where the openwith.exe ...
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how to view all process details from ps –ef command

hi all I am using the ack.pl in my bash script to search IP's in the Linux OS only for example , and only to show the problem I will give here short example # ( ./ack.pl -Q -a -l --max-count=1 -...
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How to find out which process created a particular file?

I know that you can use lsof (in Linux at least) to check which process has got a particular file opened currently, but is there anyway to find out which process created a particular file originally? ...
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Changing process priority in linux for jvm process

Is it fine if I change the JVM process priority through nice at server machine [linux]. I wanted my JVM process to use maximum resources from OS. What is the standard practice? Do people tune the ...
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All Process Stop Unexpected On Linux Server

I'm a running ubuntu 12.04 LTS server edition and two times in the pasts 48 hours or so the VPS becomes completely unresponsive. Nginx stops responding to requests. There is log activity sent to my ...
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How can I see which devices are used by a process?

iotop and iostat are great tools to see how much I/O is happening. But I haven't found out how these (or other) tools can show me the I/O rate per device and per process. So I'm looking for a way to ...
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using monit to monitor processes

i am trying to figure out how to use monit to get a notification when one of my processes starts to run once again. let me be clear- at first the process is running, stops to run and then runs again. ...
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Process monitoring w/ Haskell angel

I'm attempting to monitor a process w/ haskell's angel process monitoring tool. https://github.com/MichaelXavier/Angel The process continues to restart in an infinte loop when it is run w/o receiving ...
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How Puppet handles manifests in terms of processes?

I want to find out how Puppet handles manifests: in master process or Puppet forks it to execute in child process? It necessary for me to know what exactly do puppet master while handling manifests, ...
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many unknow process name as "sudo"

my server free memoney is less and less, And many process COMMAND are"sudo" when use top and enter M. I don't understand root user need to use "sudo". I want to know the way these processes are ...
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Find PHP process that logs to file [duplicate]

I have started a PHP script via browser and due to a loop error the script continues to be executed even after closing the browser. I am noticing it since the script is logging error messages to my ...
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Minimal container ubuntu image docker like

I'm playing around with LXC. My goal is to run a single process within a container and I'm now focusing on processes running within my container. When I create a basic LXC template on ubuntu 12.04, I'...
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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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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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