There are many definitions for a process: A program in execution An instance of a program running on a computer The entity that can be assigned to and executed on a processor A unit of activity characterized by the execution of a sequence of instructions, a current state, and an associated set of ...
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Word 2010 creates multiple processes… sometimes
I've run into a strange behavior when I migrated our users from Office 2007 / Vista to Office 2010 / Windows 7 (all 32-bit). They use a web based document management system called NetDocuments which ...
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Is there a way to automatically restart MySQL, if it takes up too much processing power?
Due to some bad scripting on my part, MySQL sometimes goes haywire - taking up a lot of CPU power (load average of more then 20 - I only have 8 cores)! When I restart it is all good again.
So my ...
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Killing a single process from multiple processes under ntauthority
We currently have a few processes running with the same image name: w3wp.exe.
One of them has a memory leak, so until the dev guys plug that we're wanting to run a scheduled task to kill the process ...
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Kill xfs_io processes
I have an EC2 instance running CentOS 5.6 86_64. I use xfs_freeze to freeze/thaw a file system before taking a snapshot. Normally this works great, but today it stopped working - the freeze operation ...
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pgrep/pidof usage for complex process names?
I am trying to use pidof or pgrep to be able to send a HUP to a process in my system. The problem is that I only want to kill the process with a precise parameter.
This is the output of 'ps awx'
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How do you run supervisord in foreground?
Is there a way to run supervisord itself in foreground mode? or is there another application that can run/supervise multiple applications and shut them down when itself receives a SIGTERM or ...
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RHEL/Apache - meaning of WCHAN=“semtim”
What is the meaning of WCHAN="semtim"?
ps -ylC httpd
S UID PID PPID C PRI NI RSS SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
S 0 25330 1 0 78 0 16168 170563 - ? 00:00:14 httpd
R ...
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Can't boot Windows 7 after having installed Server 2003 [closed]
Hope you can help me with this, because I really need to get my Windows 7 running, as that is working platform (need it for my job).
Can't boot Windows 7 after having installed Server 2003
My default ...
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Guideline for `nice` priority number?
I'd like a more systematic way for prioritizing my tasks with nice(1).
Obviously 0 is "normal", 19 is "lowest priority" and -19 is "highest priority", but what about all the other numbers?
If I have ...
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Enable foreign users processes listing
how can I enable under Debian 6 to list the processes of a foreign user? I have the user nagios but this user can only list his own processes.
Br
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Windows shutdown processes termination sequence [closed]
Do you know the Windows shutdown process is implemented? Does it has some criteria to avoid inter-process communication problems between child and parent processes?
This question originated from an ...
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Apache Running Processes
Ok I host a website through a VPS with 1&1 and I'm worried about running out of processes.
From Parallels they have set a hard limit of 128 numprocs I have had some problems with my website ...
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Hight Threads in the LAMP server. Troubleshooting
So I was wondering around the web, and cant seem to find any decent Treads trouble shooting guide. Ans at the same time my server spiked yo 3k threads. So maybe someone could give me some tips, or ...
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Does PHP script itself count as a process?
My server has a limited number of concurrent processes (20) it can handle. To make sure I don't exceed I need to understand:
When a user is waiting for a PHP script to finish loading, does the ...
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How to prevent “ps” reporting its own process?
$ ps | grep django
28006 ttys004 0:01.12 /usr/bin/python bin/django celeryd --beat
51393 ttys005 0:01.45 /usr/bin/python bin/django celeryd -l INFO
51472 ttys005 0:01.29 /usr/bin/python ...
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Why does the httpd process consume so much memory?
I am using Linux with Koloxo panel for site management. My database server went down, and I think it happened because of a lack of memory. This is even though the machine has 8GB memory and there ...
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Utility to Track processes which Utilize CPU over some user defined threshold value
I am using windows server 2000
I want to track all the process that Utilize CPU more than defined threshold value in particular time interval.
I have tried using process explorer but couldn't solve ...
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Windows unkillable process: how to inspect?
I have this process which hangs on windows 2003, with no other clue regarding what caused the hang. The OS still works, but the process itself cannot be killed, and requires a reboot to go away.
I ...
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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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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 ?
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