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Kill PHP process when connection is closed
I've posted the following question to SO, but thought there might be a server based solution.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9053964/php-script-with-sleep-does-not-exit-on-connection-close
I'm ...
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Child processes remain after quitting screen [migrated]
I'm seeing some strange screen behavior on OSX. When I quit screen, child processes are not killed.
$ screen
$ tail -f (or some long running process inside screen)
Then, I kill the current screen ...
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How to set network interface affinity under Ubuntu Linux?
I have a multihomed linux box with 6 network interfaces that I'm using to run some tests of router hardware. I would like to be able to set "NIC affinity" (for lack of a better term) on an arbitrary ...
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Debian: sftp-server still running after removing vsftpd?
After i removed vsftpd from my new vserver with debian5, there is still some process called sftp-server running and managing ftp-connection.
How can i turn that off? Where does it came from?
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How to safeguard a shell script against running out of control?
I've recently had an experience of writing a shell script which crashed a server (and damaged a partition) by consuming all resources. It was hooked up to a cron job, and it seems it took longer to ...
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linux + run script on other shell because script stuck - not return to linux prompt
In my Linux machine I have binary script (called transferNames.bin )
The problem is that when I run transferNames.bin with &
script stuck and not returns to Linux prompt “#”, even if I wait 1 day ...
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Why is my mysqld being aborted when I connect to it with a client ?
I am installing mysql-5.5.7rc from source. After the installation I start the mysqld service, but as soon as I run the mysql client service, the mysqld service gets aborted. Also mysql_install_db is ...
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WHM Daily Process Logs - Top Processes
I'm currently trying to investigate a high usage issue I'm running into on my server for a few accounts.
Under the Daily Process Log, I am looking at the Top Processes and see the problem areas - but ...
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Assigning Processes to CPU Cores
I have access to a CentOS 6 web server (a PHP/MySQL forum) running Apache 2.2.15 and MySQL 5.1.52. This box has dual oct-core Xeons.
What I find looking over the CPU graphs is that the first two ...
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Apache Server overload / Fake Processes?
My webspace provider is telling me that there are fake processes coming from my space and thus he has shut it down. So all my domains are also unreachable at the moment.
He doesn't really know what ...
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Linux Stealth Process
I have a process named "stealth" that has infected my server (slamming my CPU) and I can't figure out where it is to remove it for good. Everytime I kill the process it somehow starts itself again...
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throttle cpu usage for a cronjob
I've got a cronjob that is basically nothing more than mysqldump whatever | gzip > backup.sql.gz. The database is fairly big. I've noticed that while the job is running, my apache is much less ...
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Apache processes are not ending
I have KeepAlive on with 15 second timeout enabled. But processes are not ending. And it causes big number of apache processes which ends with server freeze. The only option is to hard reset server.
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Closing Registry files with Process Explorer
I have a user account which needs to be renamed on a production server running Server 2003.
The ntuser.dat and ntuser.dat.log files on a service account (not logged in at the moment) still have ...
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Verify disown command
I issued the ^z; bg; disown sequence in order to allow me to close an ssh session in which I am running a super-important long-running process. This process writes status output to stderr, and it has ...
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How can I know which are my rights [closed]
On a fedora server, I have access to the cli. On that server I have a webapp which generates some pdf files using a php library through some ajax request. The problem is that one of the apache ...
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How can I identify the process(es) which are locking files on servers?
I'm currently investigating a problem with my company's build server; roughly 1/10 of the builds fail due to a file being locked. It's a Windows 2003 virtual server running on top of VMWare. The ...
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Why can't I see the monit binary in the process list after starting it?
I have monit running and working (I set up a dummy warning that is getting sent), but I don't see any binary called "monit" in the process list. Furthermore if I sort the processes by newest process, ...
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UNIX permissions to allow group users to kill each others' processes
Let's say we have a group (dev) which has many users and a shared development directory with g+rwx permissions on all contained files. Is this setup sufficient so that any dev user can kill a process ...
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How can I monitor whether an application is running on Windows Server 2008?
We're mostly a Linux shop, but we have a print server running Windows Server 2008, and use an application called Print Helper to print invoices. I need to find a way to check that this application is ...
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proceses cpu load history
I would ask if there is some linux tool that can track load of each application process and save it to the log file. When something in linux system "eat" CPU to 100% and I want see what happend and ...
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Supervisor - how to get a program to run at intervals of time
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding with Supervisor does, but perhaps me asking this question will help clear that up. Basically, I have a Supervisor program in my /etc/supervisord.conf file that executes a ...
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Set default number of mod_wsgi processes
I have a virtual host setup with the follow config directive.
WSGIDaemonProcess myproject processes=2 threads=25
I would like to set the number of processes for each vhost using mod_wsgi to 2 ...
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How can I move a process to a core or dedicate a process to a processor?
I have an Intel E5620 processor. I have used cat /proc/[pid]/stat to determine what processor the process was last run on (39th field). How can I ensure that a process is dedicated to a processor (I ...
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Using daemontools under Debian
I need to monitor my postfix, dovecot and sasl process and start them if something go wrong.
I read about daemontools and I want it to monitor mail services.
Can I find somewhere step by step guide ...
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Putting a process in the background without stopping it - (ctrl+z)?
If I start a process by typing it in normally at the command line, such as
wget http://site.com/bigfile.zip
and then decide I want to move that to the background, I know that I can use something ...
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Can I disable BIND if I use a third party DNS?
I'm trying to get the memory footprint of my server as low as possible.
When I run htop I get the following:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/iHnr7.png
As you can see there are 5 bind processes running but ...
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Why are processes increasing continuously on my apache web server?
I am running an apache 2 webserver. Everything works fine, but about every 14-20 days i have to restart the web server because it does not respond anymore.
Looking at the munin statistics, i ...
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How to inventory what software/roles a Linux server is “serving up” to clients?
Is there a way to identify what "client/server" processes/applications are running on a Linux server to know what the server's role or roles are?
I'm sure it might vary for different flavors of Linux ...
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Which is better — single high speed processor or double lower speed processor?
I'm looking forward to buy a Dell PowerEdge Tower server, that would cater to a low or moderate expected load, at least for the time being. I have a question about it's processor -- whether it is ...
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Program to manage process workflow across machines?
I have an in-house perl script that is in great need of refactoring. In the interest of not reinventing the wheel, I'm looking to see if an open-source equivalent to itexists, and I'm having trouble ...
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Too many csrss.exe, LogonUI.exe, svchost.exe and winlogon.exe in task manager
On a windows server 2008 enterprise edition, nothing has changed but recently there are many csrss.exe, LogonUI.exe, svchost.exe and winlogon.exe processes in task manager.
Does it mean some remote ...
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Nagios : 244 processes but load average 0.30 0.59 0.51
My nagios is suggesting that one of my hosts has a critical amount of processes.
However the load seems fine.
This server is providing mysql database and mailserver.
Should I be worried ?
244 ...
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Problem with msiexec.exe locking up when installing / uninstalling
I am running two virtual 2008 Windows Servers that have been having some reoccurring problems for the past few months. Msiexec.exe seems to run and always freezes at 25% cpu usage and around 12 - 15k ...
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Making processes lower priority. Niceness isn't seeming to cut it
I run a game server. Every 12 hours or so we have to generate a map of the server for our website. The process takes about 20 minutes and burns the CPU hard the entire time, which lags my game server. ...
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Shutdown goes to uninterruptible sleep after sending wall message
I have a server which I'm administrating remotely over SSH, for various reasons, it needs to be restarted. However, when I try to do so, shutdown goes to uninterruptible sleep almost immediately after ...
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Determine which files a process opened (Linux)
I am trying to determine which files a process creates when it runs. I know that I can list the file handles of a currently running process by looking in /proc or using lsof. However, the problem is ...
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I Have 5GB Free RAM and 70-130 Apache Processes - Improvements?
I want to tune my httpd.conf. I have constantly about 60-130 Apache processes (all 20+MB). However my server only needs like 3GB and I have 8GB overall.
My settings:
Timeout 10
FileETag None
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How do I start a process in suspended state under Linux?
Practically, I need a process which behaves, as if I had pressed Ctrl+Z just after it started.
Hopefully, it is possible to do such thing using a shell script.
(Also, knowing the resulting PID would ...
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Why are there double apache processes for mod_wsgi?
I am running a Django app using mod_wsgi, and am trying to understand how the apache processes work.
Here is my apache httpd.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
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Close a process without psKill and force?
I have a bunch of processes on a server that I want to update the exes regurlary.
But before update they must be closed and I use PsKill for that in a bat-file. It works but I seek a way to only send ...
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pwdx returning gibberish
pwdx is supposed to print out the current working directory of a process given a process id.
Normally this looks something like:
$ sudo pwdx 1
1: /
$ pwdx $$
5251: /home/foo
One one machine I ...
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Grab process information about high process usage
I'm looking to grab process information about processes that are using over a certain CPU limit.
Ex:
#!/usr/bin/env python
def get_processes_over_usage(cpu_usage):
#Find the processes.
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SENS (System Event Notification Service) Uses 100% of processor every minute
I just spun up a new Hyper-V server running Server 2008 R2 Core which I am planning on using as a dedicated FTP server. I finished installing all the windows update server packs, but right as I was ...
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How can I prevent a process from running under Mac OSX 10.6?
Basically, there are some system processes that I want to prevent from running. If I force quit them, they simply restart. How can I prevent them from starting/relaunching.
Before you say that I ...
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Passenger - “Auto-kill” rogue processes?
I'm running a Ruby on Rails application with Passenger + Apache. There's also a perl mailing list server (Sympa) running with mod_perl.
I have root and sh access to the server (an Ubuntu machine).
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Where does the name in the “COMMAND” field of `ps aux` come from?
I understand it displays the command with arguments, or when unavailable the command in square brackets.
But where do the names come from for processes such as passenger worker ruby instances, which ...
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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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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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How can I version controll my F5 Big-IP LTM load balancer configs while allowing changes via iControl or the web interface
Currently we use F5 Big-IP LTMs (IP load balancers) in our environment for load balancing. We have an existing process for making changes to LTM configs and pushing them out. I'm trying to figure out ...
