An instance of a running computer program.
Questions tagged [process]
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How to find out cgroup of a particular process?
Is there any method to get cgroup of process?
The only one package that I know (cgroup-bin), just provide some manipulations with cgroups and allow to change cgroup of process/list of processes, but no capabilities to know information about cgroup…
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Linux/Debian - What does 'pee' in moreutils do?
I recently discovered the 'moreutils' package in Debian (and Ubuntu). It's a collection of convenient unix tools.
One of the commands is 'pee'. The man page says:
pee is like tee but for pipes.
However it's a short man page, I have filed a bug…
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How to kill a process with parent 1
I am running Bacula on a RedHat box. From time to time, the storage daemon bacula-sd stops working and becomes .
[root@backup ~]# ps -ef | grep defunct | more
root 4801 29261 0 09:25 pts/5 00:00:00 grep defunct
root 5825 1…
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Windows 7 or Server 2008 Show running time for a Process
Is there any simple way to show how long a specific PID instance has been active?
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What is svchost and why are multiple instances of it running?
There's six instances running on my desktop, and probably ten on a server I manage. What is this, and is it vital to system function?
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Kill a process and force it to return 0 in Linux?
In the Linux environment, how can I send a kill signal to a process, while making sure that the exit code returned from that process is 0? Would I have to do some fancy GDB magic for this, or is there a fancy kill signal I'm unaware of?
Test…
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Do background processes get a SIGHUP when logging off?
This is a followup to this question.
I've run some more tests; looks like it really doesn't matter if this is done at the physical console or via SSH, neither does this happen only with SCP; I also tested it with cat /dev/zero > /dev/null. The…
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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 like ctrl+z and then bg 1 (or jobs first if needed…
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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 be great, so I could continue the process…
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What is a Process Handle?
What is a process handle and what can we know about a running process through the "handle count" property in a task explorer?
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How do you kill a process tree in linux?
Sometimes, sending a SIGTERM to a process will cause it to send SIGTERM to all its child processes. However, sometimes this doesn't work.
Is there a command or a utility that will allow me to kill a process and all its child processes at the same…
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How do I log CPU usage per process?
I have a box on Linode that's going through weird behavior. Every now and then CPU and disk I/O will shoot to 100% and the server becomes unresponsive and has to be booted. I'd like to investigate better what's going on, but I don't know how to find…
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Best way to kill Zombie and D state processes in linux
What is the best way to kill Zombie processes and D state process by single command.
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Display complete command line (including arguments) for Windows process
I want to display a process's command line (including any arguments) from the command line itself. In other words, I want to show the "Command Line" column in the Task Manager but from a command line. Is this possible?
For example, the output might…
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Is there an equivalent command for 'init.d/networking restart' in OS X
From time to time, I've encountered issues with OS X clients' network connections (Wired and Wireless, Leopard/Snow Leopard) where nothing will fix the issue, until you reboot.
Is there a particular 'network service/process' I should be watching…
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