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Questions tagged [process]

An instance of a running computer program.

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How to Identify Port to a Process?

I'm running a RedHat 5.5 and I was wondering how I can identify a port to a process. This is the output of netstat and I'm trying to find the process associated with port 35670: $ netstat -tulnp tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:35670 …
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Tie a process to specific CPU cores

I have a Debian server with software-RAID and a quad-core processor. Once all cores are under full load, the RAID system has a huge IO delay. The server is running some very CPU-expensive jobs. Is it possible that I can tie these jobs to specific…
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SSH: How to start a process that won't end after system reboot?

Is there a way to do this so when I reboot my linux server the process will reopen on startup?
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In Windows 2008R2 there is a TCP port that is stuck LISTENING but the process that has it open is terminated?

I have a program, NC_net that allows Nagios to monitor Windows machines for various metrics and it seems to have caused a sporadic issue where when the service stops, the TCP port remains open. The service has been stopped for over two hours and…
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Cant kill process on Windows Server 2008!! - Thread in Wait:Executive State

I hope someone can help me with our issue we are having. We have a major issue with a process that we can not kill and the only way to get rid of the process is to reboot the machine. I have tried killing it from the normal task manager but no…
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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 shouldn't mess with system processes: I fully…
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how to detect a process which is continuosly eating the disk space

on our linux system (suse), one of the partition is nfs-mounted and some process is continuously eating the disk space in it, leaving behind zero bytes to write. How can I figure out this process or daemon which is eating the disk space? Is there…
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Monitor bandwidth per-process

This has been driving me nuts but my server has been using a highly excessive amount of bandwidth for the last two months, and I can't figure out how/why/where. This month, for example, it's used 210 Gb download traffic (inbound to the server), but…
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There seems to be some 'lingering' SSH connections on my server. How do I fix it?

[root@server mike]# w 14:43:35 up 83 days, 1:25, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT mike pts/1 dsl-IP.w 14:43 0.00s 0.01s 0.03s sshd: mike [priv] [root@server…
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Linux high memory usage (top total mismatch)

I havea poor mans vps - 256MB dedicated RAM. I have installed LAMP. No website is currently UP on the server yet. The memory usage is still 225MB (only 31 MB free). I have measured using top and another method. Top says around 225mb used, but if I…
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How to stop .Net's Dr Watson running in Server 2008?

Summary: My "dual-core" VM has one core being totally wasted by a constantly running Dr Watson process (provided by the .Net Runtime), and I can't figure out how to stop if from running. When it runs in conjunction with the timed…
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/proc/pid/environ missing variables

google is giving no love on this one today, so I turn to the experts... I'm currently hacking together a script that relies on the /proc/pid/environ feature in Linux (RHEL 4) to check for a particular environment variable. Trouble is, it seems…
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Linux process management

I started a long running background-process (dd with /dev/urandom) in my ssh console. Later I had to disconnect. When I logged in, again (this time directly, without ssh), the process still seemed to to run. I am not sure what happened - I did not…
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Lots of same 3 processus : migration, ksoftirqd, watchdog on Fedora

On a Fedora 11, I have more than 250 processes: migration, ksoftirqd and watchdog. They are not taking any CPU or memory resources, just sleeping. What is that?
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Lots of NULL processes in MySQL

Since last week without a particular reason my website started to drastically slow down. I logged into MySQL and run show processlist which resulted in something like this: mysql> show full…
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