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An instance of a running computer program.

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Checking if process has not been running for a certain period of time

What's good "ghetto process monitor" without installing any additional software besides cron and some standard UNIX tools? I.e. check in a shell script if a certain process has died and been dead for a while to restart it? This would be to restart…
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Apache process keeps running after closing browser

When I run a PHP script through browser ( HTTP connection) the PID is printed for debugging, but when this request is closed by clicking the browser's Stop button, or closing this browser tab, I still see the process when I run ps -aux in terminal.…
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ulimit -s not working on OSX Snow Leopard

I'm trying to raise the upper level of user processes on my machine. ulimit -s doesn't seem to do a thing: I've also tried launchctl limit with the same results. Don't know what else to do :S
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Which process creating cracker files?

A large number of cracker files with name FOO** are created by some of the process. I executed following command to found culprit process lsof -f -F /tmp/* But didn't found anything useful. Is there any better way to catch culprit process.
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Show a user a list of processes and who's running them

I just got tasked with a particularly nasty project. I come up with what is undoubtedly a horrible way to get it done so I thought I would put the project out there and see if anyone had any insight. The requirements are such: User-A need to be…
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Hiding other users' processes on top

I'm running a Debian server and giving out shell access for a handful of friends. I'd like to hide the running processes from those normal users, so that for example top only shows their own processes, and not anything started by anyone else.…
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Start processes at the same time

I have written a bash script which inturn needs to run around 130 Perl scripts. #!/bin/bash perl file1.pl & perl file2.pl & perl file3.pl & .... .... perl file130.pl & The above bash script is configured in the cron to run after every 10 minutes.…
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How can I know the maximum allowed number of forks for a process in Ubuntu?

I am using process control in PHP to create forks. My server's operating system is Ubuntu. How can I know what is the capacity of my server in handling those forks? Is there a limit? And if so, can I change it?
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finding the bottleneck

I have a process running that is opening TIF files. Each TIF file is just one regular page and they are maybe 100 kB each. Every time he opens a TIF file it tries to read a barcode in a specific area on the page.after it reads the barcode in the…
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throw memory to a process

I have a process that inserts 10 million records into a mysql db and is running on a linux box with (4 * 2.13GHz processors + 4 gigs of Memory ). Right now it takes ~2 hours to complete and I'm not sure if the process utilizes all the processors.…
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Post-installation process of PostgreSQL 8.4 in FreeBSD?

I have installed PostgreSQL 8.4 with pkg_add -r postgres84-server. I added 'postgresql_enable="YES"to/etc/rc.conf, and executed/usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb`. And when I run psql to start, it printed these errors: %psql psql: FATAL: …
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VM client restart

I am using a wyse terminal (thin client) with xpe. I have disabled explorer in registry and replaced the shell with the vm client so at startup it looks like a windows logon but its VM view client instead. This all works well however when I log…
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Django WSGI segfaults when importing setproctitle module

I want to use the python setproctitle module to update the process name of a python WSGI worker process when it starts working on a request. (This is to try to track down what URLs are using all the CPU). I have written a simple Django middleware…
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Proxy+PHP: filter and process specific proxied requests and responses with PHP scripts

I need to configure a proxy on a machine A in a network X. Then I need to connect a client (smartphone) on this same network X but having the proxy configuration as the one prepared on the machine A. So basically, the smartphone is going to pass…
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Windows Server 2003 Process Monitoring and Logging

Can anyone recommend software to monitor and log the processes (CPU, RAM, Disk IO, etc) on a Windows 2003 Server (Like Windows Sysinternals Process Explorer, but with logging)? We have a server that appears to be healthy - CPU is not over used, RAM…
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