An instance of a running computer program.
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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 or more ( so I cant continue work on my Linux because…

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Windows XP process scheduling for ethernet adapter
Our company virus scanner (Sophos) was auto updating itself yesterday with a large monthly update. We have the network bandwidth throttled to 100k reduce the overall load on our network but as the process was updating, all the computers hung because…
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Monitoring PHP process on CentOS 5.5
I want to monitor a php process activity because sometime it keeps hanging there for a day although I have set time limit but it seems like its not working. I setup a cron job which runs this PHP application.
I tried to attach process from WHM but…

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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 active handles from the system #4 process.
Is it safe…

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Mysql multi request at same time
I have a Ubuntu-server. It is running Mysql & Apache. I have several request at same time. I I saw processes, by top command. I have 10 Apache process and always one process for Mysql.
I understood, sometimes on high traffic conditions, insert in…

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What could be causing 30+ Apache processes consuming all memory?
I have a VPS which hosts a site (http://www.tanguay.info/web) which gets about 1800 unique visitors per day.
The site ran fine getting 3-second response times for weeks.
All of a sudden on Friday at 4PM the site became inaccessible with response…

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Rescue Mode For EC2, Process Hangs On Startup
I have an ec2 server that was running for several months without any problems, but I recently had to reboot due to an unknown reason.
Now, it appears that it is having trouble starting up, possible because of a script I asked it to run on startup. …

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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 to setup daemontools on Debian? I've already…

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Terminal Server 2008 - Certain users experience slow load times for certain processes
I'm tearing my hair out here. Please can someone assist me. I have users on a terminal server and they all use the same programs - Office and an Accounting package, yet certain processes are slower to load for userB & userC, while userA gets an…

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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 recognized, that it is related to the number of apache…

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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:
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com
WSGIDaemonProcess 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 a "Quit Query" to the processes so it shuts down…

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Does running "./something.sh" considered as idle?
The file ./something.sh contains multi thousands of complex jobs. this should take long time. I just simply run ./something.sh without any other command, and I must wait until it finished.
I connecting to this Ubuntu server through SSH. Now…

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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 domains, app pools, processes and threads come into…

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how to kill a zombie process?
I got a two processes during the network drive failure.
1 D 0 1199 1 0 80 0 - 19101 wait_o pts/21 00:00:01 rsync
1 Z 0 1226 1199 0 80 0 - 0 exit pts/21 00:00:00 rsync
How to kill them?
thanks Arman

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