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An instance of a running computer program.

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Seeing when was the last time a process ran in linux

Looking at top output on my linux server, I see a root owned process that is always in S mode whenever I look. How can I find out when was the last time it actually ran on a cpu and did something? Thanks!
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IP/process based bandwidth usage stats tool for windows

I wanted to track which process in my windows OS is eating up my bandwidth. I've found similar question for Linux. The tool mentioned in this answer is available for linux only I think. Is there any similar kind of tool for windows?
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ps aux as non-root doesn't show all processes

i'm using an ubuntu 10.04 server... when i run ps aux as root i see all processes when i run ps aux as nonroot i see JUST the processes of the current user after a bit of research i found the following solution: root@m85:~# ls -al /proc/ total…
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Cannot kill process in Linux: httpd -k start

I cannot kill the following process: 0.0 1620 17462 /home/mertnuhoglu/webapps/django/apache2/bin/httpd -k start I give kill command but httpd instance still runs: [mertnuhoglu@web145 dj02]$ kill -9 17462 [mertnuhoglu@web145 dj02]$ ps -u…
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WMI - Win 2k8 - How do I tell what it's dependancies are?

I've got a server that'll boot and log let you term serv into it at 6 min but acutally become useful at 18 min from hitting reboot. After rooting around in the logs I strongly think it's a service timing out and my current suspect is the WMI…
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How to limit the process-number of mapserver-cgi started from Apache?

The Apache-webserver starts in out configuration a CGI-script for some requests. That is a shell-script, that basically starts a mapserver with some parameters. As the mapserver-process uses many resources, we want to limit the number of processes…
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Process in windows that does not have a console window?

I have many processes in a pipeline style application. Each time I launch the application there will be a different number and order of the processes that make up the pipeline. My intent is to start them via a master batch file, however I would like…
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Process memory usage on Linux (post-mortem)

I'm trying to find memory usage stats for processes after they finish (on Linux). Is there a way to do this? I know I can get this data while a process is running by looking in /proc/{id}/status, but that file is gone after the process dies.
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How to change the ownership of a process in Debian?

I have a process of mine running as root (say a webserver) and I want it to be run as non-root. Is there a way to change the ownership of a process from root to an unprivileged user? I am working on a Debian machine. Thanks!
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Audit log of processes

I was wondering if there is a way that I can check to see the times a certain process ran. I'm running RedHat. Thanks.
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Monitor processes solution

Scenario: Linux machine ; I need to "monitor" my processes: need to find every processes that is consuming >80% CPU over 20 seconds, and write the process info into a log . Is there already a solution for this, or I'll write my own script ? I've…
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I see two jscv processes when invoked inside a service

I'm using tomcat's jscv to start the server ** as a service ** as the user tomcat (using jscv -user tomcat "lots of other parameters"). My server runs fine, however my question is: Is it bad that when I do ps -ef | grep tomcat I see two…
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wmic change default output format(get only process executable path)

Using wmic to get information about process. wmic process where processid="" gives many details (Caption, creationtime, arguments, ExecutablePath etc) . Right now I am processing the output to get name and process-executable-path. Is there…
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launching a process from IIS7

I have a Windows 2008 box running IIS7. The server hosts an ASP.NET application that absolutely needs to fire up an external process - an executable located in this same machine. This setup works fine in the ASP.NET development server, but fails…
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advisability of taskkill to close an application

Before running backups on the data from an application I need to close it cleanly without risking an improper shutdown and data corruption in a Paradox Database. How likely is that, if I use taskkill and force the process to close in a batch file?…
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