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How to calculate mean CPU and memory usage of a command line?
The following command in UNIX:
time sh -c julia src/script_etudedtsi.jl 80 20 100 366 5 10 0 1 0 0 1 1
returned the elapsed time for my Julia script.
I tried:
pidstat -u -p $(pgrep -f julia src/...
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I took RAM and CPU out and placed them back in, now the PC is not showing display but powers on [closed]
My CPU is the Ryzen 3 2200g And my RAM is 2x4GB 3000mhz.
I took both of them out to take pictures to sell them, and when I put them back in the motherboard it does not show display, but it does power ...
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Difference between an 8-bit addressable CPU and an 8-bit CPU [closed]
I was recently given a test and they mentioned that the CPU was an 8-bit addressable one. They wanted me to write a C program that would write a character of arrays to some specific location in the ...
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How Do I Determine the Best Memory Frequency to Buy for My Laptop? [closed]
I'm looking to upgrade the RAM in my laptop and want to ensure I choose the most suitable memory frequency. I understand that higher frequency RAM can be more expensive, but I've read that it may not ...
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what does this mean? I'm new to computers and I recently started having this issue where my computer shuts off when I play certain games
I looked it up and someone told me to run this ram test. I'm currently running it and I've gotten 2 error as shown in the picture
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Wrapper to monitor CPU and memory usage for a command line without knowing its duration in advance [duplicate]
This great (in my opinion) answer on Super User provides a solution to track CPU and memory usage of a command line. It is great, however, you need to know in advance the duration of your command line....
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Detect the origin for my computer's problems, probably hardware-related
In the past couple of weeks my computer shows more and more problems. I think it might be a hardware problem, since most of my setup is 13 years old and it worked before with the same OS. However, I ...
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Motherboard LED is lit (constant green) but turns off immediately when I press the power button (No fans, no POST)
I'm not sure where to begin; I've been trying to get the thing working again for a couple of weeks (waiting on shipping is a pain). There are no trustworthy local shops (speaking from experience) so ...
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Why is Task Manager showing more than 100% CPU Usage? What does it mean?
I have a weird issue. This is the second time that I'm encountering this over the last 2-3 months.
My CPU Usage is constantly running between 120% and 200%... How? How is this possible? What does it ...
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how to troubleshoot MS Word freezing repeatedly with many images on page
I'm working on a single page MS Word document with 64 small images on it. As I'm working with the document I keep getting the spinning wheel and the screen fades every few seconds and the status bar ...
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my pc has become slow, it just gotten slower on its own
These are my computer's specs:
Intel core i5 3570
GT 710 DDR3
8GB ram
It may not be powerful by modern standards, but it can play some games , like Minecraft, kinda good. My pc can run it over ...
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How can I track and log CPU and memory usage on a Mac?
I know I can use Activity Monitor (as well as a slew of 3rd party applications) to monitor the usage of RAM and CPU on my Mac. However, I want to capture a log over an amount of time so that I can ...
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High "System" CPU usage; unaccounted for Memory usage
I fresh reinstalled Windows 11 a couple months back, and for a while now it seems like there's some sort of memory leak (?) that causes high CPU usage by the "System" process, high memory ...
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Why does dmidecode return a higher number of banks than the number of memory channels supported by the CPU?
According to the wiki, a bank refers to the secondary structure of a DRAM chip, which is different from the bank mentioned in the dmidecode command. I am wondering what the relationship is between ...
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Updating BIOS - Increase RAM Capacity? Virtual Memory Increase?
I have an old laptop. Does Updating the BIOS increase Maximum RAM capacity?
Sometimes my programs will shut down and the laptop is slow at Max RAM. RAM is 4gb and Virtual Memory is 5gb. Google says ...
