An instance of a running computer program.
Questions tagged [process]
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How to increase the default number of Postgres processes?
Disclaimer: I'm relatively new to Postgres.
On my production EC2 DB server, I'm experiencing high CPU usage on two of the five CPUs, ultimately resulting in latency for users of my application.
I've noticed that Postgres appears to only run two…

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How to deny checking list of running processes?
How to prevent a user from checking list of processes started by another user ?
In other words, how do I forbid a user to see which processes are running by another user ?

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capture apps when file is being used by another proc
I have a build server that throws "the file is being used by another process" from time to time. I get alerting by email but by the time I log onto the machine to investigate, the file isn't used anymore. Is there a monitoring tool that detects the…

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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 generated ? Can I kill ?
Tasks: 185 total, 1…

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Find PHP process that logs to file
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 logfile (path known).
We have a Apache server where…

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Ways to manage a pool of scripts
I have a PHP script that waits for AMQP messages. When a message comes in it is processed and after processing is done it will wait for the next message.
The problem is of course that this is blocking. If e.g. an incoming message needs me to contact…

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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've got about ten processes running (including…

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Apache process races away (process size explosion)
I come here because I have searched and tried different optimization without finding any answers.
We have a server with four websites hosted. The frequentation is not very high (we are sure that the problem is not the number of visitors).
We have a…

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Does killing proccess means free used memory?
I have the service, that each second run external exe programs (for example process1.exe) and kill's them. Taskmgr - show only one process. After running service i get minimal free memory availability. Sum of all processes memory and total usage…

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Linux: How to know which process(s) are accessing my files?
I have a mounted partition, which I tried umounting and it's giving me an error. There is a chance that some process is accessing some files in that mounted partition.
How do I know, which process is accessing it, and which files?
Or better,…

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MySQL Process Big
Ok, so I don't know if this is a repeat question so I'm sorry if it is (I couldn't find anything like it after searching =/)
My server seems to be running what seems to me a larger than normal mysql process:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S…

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request tracker 4 running standalone and number of child processes
I'm running request tracker 4 standalone, which means with not any http server in front.
My problem is that once I launch the server as in:
/usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/request-tracker4/libexec/rt-server --port 80
Suddenly it creates a bunch of child…

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How do I restart a process someone else is using
I'm pretty new to ops so please don't mind if use the incorrect terms.
I have a program that runs on another box. I need to restart the program after I deploy code to it, via capistrano. I tried sshing into the box to do the restart but it won't…

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How to get process not responding on remote server with Powershell
I don't understand, responding is empty on remote serveur.
Get-Process explorer -ComputerName vcass1 | select name,id,responding
Name Id Responding
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Monitoring ports in Linux
How to find out what processes are listening on specific ports in Ubuntu?

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