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Questions tagged [process]

An instance of a running computer program.

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PHP+Apache as forward/reverse proxy: how to process client requests and server responses in PHP?

I'm having a lot of troubles with the proper configuration of Apache mod_proxy.so to work as desired... The main idea, is to create a proxy on a local machine in a network which will have the ability to process a client request (client connected…
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Is there a way to limit the memory a process uses in Win7 x64?

I think Linux can do this using ulimit, I'm looking for something similar in Win7 x64. The problem is some times a process doesn't know the physical memory is already exhausted and continues to allocate memory, which will slowdown the system to a…
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Run a pool of processes in shell

I'm looking for an easy method to run N selected processes at the same time with one command. It should put all the output on my terminal and shut down all of them when I exit with ctrl+c. Is there any existing app that does this? I'm thinking of…
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Graphing process memory usage on Linux

I'm trying to diagnose a memory leak in a process, and looking for a tool to graph its memory usage over time. Is there any tool on Linux that supports diagramming in a form similar to Windows PerfMon? I tried using IBM virtual assistant, but it…
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Sort Active Processes in Unix

How can i sort active processes by total process time in unix?
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Find location where process started from on linux

If I have output from ps like the following, is there any way to determine where 'blah' is on the file system? For my particular situation, the -p specifies which port the application should run on. user 22913 22470 0 09:58 ? 00:00:06 ./blah…
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why doesn't htop display the same process start time than ps

Ubuntu 16.0.4.5, htop 2.0.1 and 2.2.0 compiled from source. Showing the STARTTIME column in htop, displays Jan25 but ps -o lstart displays Sat Dec 15 20:58:46 2018 By looking at the pid it seems that ps's output is incorrect, but htop's not.
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What to use instead of PM2 for non-Node.js applications?

I'm thinking of switching from Node.js to another programming language (Elixir). And in Node, I've used PM2 as a process manager. Now, the thing is, I don't want to use PM2 for process management, since I would need Node as a dependency and PM2 is…
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Can not kill process with kill -9

I can not kill one process with command kill -9, is there any way to kill it without restarting the machine?
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Comparison between htop and top

Here is a screenshot of top and htop running at the same moment on same host (both sorted by cpu usage). Why does top show only few of php-cgi and mysqld processes while htop shows them all (according to ps output)?
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How can I determine how much memory a process is using in AIX?

How can I determine how much memory a process is using in AIX?
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Why are some processes assigned parent PIDs even though they don't have a parent?

There are a number of processes that are started with a fake (non-existent PID). An example of this is a csrss.exe process. It starts up, and the parent process PID assigned doesn't exist. If you look in procexp.exe, "Parent" is listed as "(524)"…
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Linux NFS - 'stat' on defunct NFS mount causes blocked ('D') state processes and high load average

I'm rearranging some NFS mounts - tidying up and decommissioning them. As part of this, my 'management' server has gained a huge load average, because of nagios kicking off 'stat' on the NFS mounts. All the processes have gone into state D -…
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Automatically Kill/Restart Process(es) When Memory is Critically Low

I have a Debian Wheezy VPS box where am running a couple of Django apps in production. Ideally, would have tried addressed my current memory footprint issues by optimizing the apps, adding more RAM or augmenting with Swap. But the problem is that I…
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Process monitoring and service manager for Python web application

We're setting up a Python web application using the CherryPy web server on a bunch of Linux servers (it's behind an nginx load balancer sending traffic to the various servers). We're in the process of switching from Windows servers to Linux servers,…
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