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An instance of a running computer program.

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Cannot get ruby bluepill gem to install on ubuntu

i install bluepill on ubuntu: Linux auto 2.6.31-14-server #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 15:07:34 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux Actual Result: root@auto:/# gem install bluepill Successfully installed bluepill-0.0.43 1 gem installed Installing ri…
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How can I debug these runaway ruby processes?

Seemingly out of nowhere (I didn't make any code changes or server changes), I've got dozens of ruby processes running my server into the ground: alt text http://share.shpigford.com/images/ruby-20100930-142655.png How can I track down what all of…
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IT counterpart to medicine's ICD-10/DSM-IV for diagnosing problems?

I've often thought about why there aren't any diagnostics manual on a very broad level, a counterpart to the medical DSM-IV/ICD-10 manuals. From a troubleshooting perspective, the work of an investigative technician would be very much a like that of…
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Identify spawned processes

I think that the number of processes forked per sec is a bit too high on one of the servers. How can I monitor what processes are spawned? Is there any tool that can help me? I know I can strace a specific process looking for fork(), but is there…
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VPS vs Dedicated

Can I setup java based linux daemon on HostGator VPS? If yes than how? What will be the procedure (any help or detailed article)? HostGator provides virtuozzo as the OS virtualization environment. I also want to know apart from virtuozzo how can I…
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Find the HTTP request for specific apache processes

I have several apache processes running on a system, which seem to be stuck in infinite loops. Is there some way I can inspect the apache process to find what the HTTP request was that they are attempting to respond to?
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Why windows process scheduler assign tasks to random CPUs?

I am on dual core C2D processor, Windows 7 (although this behavior is the same in all MS OSes I've seen). When I run any single threaded CPU-intensive task, it does not stick to 1 core, but rather randomly occupy some 50% of first core, and some 50%…
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What is TIRHService.exe?

What is this process? It on a fresh install of Windows Server 2008 with an Oracle 11g database installed on it. The process is in c:\windows\ and according to Sophos Anti-virus it is trying to access the registry. It is probably harmless, but…
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Launching a process with memory restrictions on linux

I've got a php/linux web site. My php processes periodically need to run executables to do things like manipulate images. I'd like to limit the amount of memory and CPU those sub-processes can consume, but I'd like for the limits to be different…
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Finding Network Status of specific process name

I am looking for the cleanest way on linux to find the port status for a port being used by a specified program name via the command line. I have seen that netstat -p lists all pids but haven't seen anything corresponding to specific process names.…
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Only allow certain processes to connect to MS SQL

I've lost the source code for a very old application that connects to a MS SQL-server for some SQL queries. Since the login is hard-coded in the application I can't change the username/password on the server. One day the password will probably be…
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How can i see what is locking up a table?

Possible Duplicate: “Delete query” not able to be completed I am trying to delete a single row from the db, but it is not completing,even in 20 minutes.There is no other queries locking up the db. I suspect it is some "leftover" lock from…
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Apache+PHP problem: Cannot list processes other than apache's

I have a quite fresh install of the Apache (2.2.3/Centos) + PHP(5.1.6) and following problem: I need to monitor life of one process and in order to do that I run: $last_line = exec('ps -C snmpd'); and check its output. Unfortunately I always get…
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ubuntu: starting program with sudo on boot

I am trying to start xampp when the ubuntu starts on ubuntu 9.10. I tried going to system->preferences->startup applications adding it there, but it didn't work. I surmised it was because it needs to be started as root. I know you can make a startup…
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What is EngineServer.exe and should I kill it?

I've got this process running on my work computer and it's starting to take up quite a bit of memory. I know it belongs to McAffee but, is it possible to disable it directly? killing it from the Task Manager doesn't work. Thanks Niall
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