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Questions tagged [process]

An instance of a running computer program.

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How is htop "Swp" calculated?

When I run htop (on OS X 10.6.8), I see something like this : 1 [||||||| 20.0%] Tasks: 70 total, 0 running 2 [||| 7.2%] Load average: 1.11 0.79 0.64 3 [|||||||||||||||||||||||||||81.3%] …
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How to send jobs to background without stopping them?

Ctrl+z sends the current job to background, but stops it. And how to resume a stopped job?
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UNIX permissions to allow group users to kill each others' processes

Let's say we have a group (dev) which has many users and a shared development directory with g+rwx permissions on all contained files. Is this setup sufficient so that any dev user can kill a process launched by any other dev user (assuming the…
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top in batch mode, need CPU% for every core

I know that after running top, I can press 1 and get a list of the CPUs with their utilization percentages. I suspect I can do this in batch mode too with the -b option, but I don't know how, and I cannot find it in the manual. I need to read it…
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How to get all running process ids only?

I know that ps ax returns the pids 1 ? Ss 0:01 /sbin/init 2 ? S< 0:00 [kthreadd] 3 ? S< 0:00 [migration/0] All I need is to clean those strings, but I couldn't do it with sed because I couldn't write the proper…
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Write to stdin of a running process using pipe

I am in a similar situation as in this post But I couln't get the solution provided there to work in my situation as the answer seems related to that question only. In particular, I couldnt understand what was the purpose of cat my.fifo | nc…
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What does the leading dash in process cmdline mean?

I noticed a process taking full CPU on my linux server, of which the COMMAND column from top -c is -bash. cat /proc//cmdline shows -bash too. What does the leading dash mean? More info: I don't know if it's relevant, /proc//exe ->…
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Route IP Traffic Based on Process to Different Default Routes / Interfaces

I'm trying to determine if it is possible to selectively route IP packets from a process or process group through a specific interface while all other packets are routed through another interface. That is, I want all traffic from /usr/bin/testapp to…
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App Pool doesn't respect memory limits

I am dealing with a legacy .NET app that has a memory leak. In order to try and mitigate a run away memory situation, I've set the app pool memory limits from anywhere between 500KB to 500000KB (500MB) however the app pool doesn't seem to respect…
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Remove a zombie process from the process table

I've got an annoying zombie process that gets adopted by init, and it won't go away. I've read there is a way to create a dummy process, attach the zombie as a child of that new process and then kill it, removing it from the process table. How would…
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Supervisor VS cronjob

Actually I'm using supervisor to monitor a process and restart it when it stops for some reason. The problem is that in case of a supervisor crash the process stops get monitored. So I thought to schedule a cronjob to check supervisor is running,…
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How can I move a process to a core or dedicate a process to a processor?

I have an Intel E5620 processor. I have used cat /proc/[pid]/stat to determine what processor the process was last run on (39th field). How can I ensure that a process is dedicated to a processor (I have 8 available) or better yet, how can I…
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How to restart a daemondo controlled process?

How can I restart a daemondo controlled process with other options on my MAC (OS-X 10.4)? I changed /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.gearman/org.macports.gearman.plist and killed the gearman process. Daemondo restarted it but with the same…
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Pain removing a perl rootkit

So, we host a geoservice webserver thing at the office. Someone apparently broke into this box (probably via ftp or ssh), and put some kind of irc-managed rootkit thing. Now I'm trying to clean the whole thing up, I found the process pid who tries…
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top is only showing current user processes

Recently got a dedicated server running CentOS 6.7, we have ran updates and noticed that top is only showing processes for the current user. [myuser@server2 ~]$ top -b -n1 top - 20:19:20 up 1 day, 10:09, 3 users, load average: 0.80, 0.50,…
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