Questions tagged [process]
A process is a binary program running continuously on a computer (until terminated) which is managed by the operating system.
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Launching Windows apps from WSL2 with foreground process control
I'm using WSL2 on Windows 11 and I'm trying to achieve the following: I want to launch Windows applications from within WSL2 and have the Bash terminal maintain a handle to the new process. ...
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What is "Chrome File Utilities" process and why does it slow down my system?
It is a process spawned by Chrome.
I was compressing a folder on my drive unrelated to anything chrome has to do with and it was sucking up my CPU and making winrar unresponsive?
What does that ...
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W10 command line prevent process launch failure due to "blocked" redirect files
I have a .vbs file which runs a .bat file which has the following line in it:
python src\core\start.py 1> stdout.txt 2> stderr.txt
... annoyingly, after I shut down a previous run and ordered ...
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macOS command line tool for capturing the execution of an entire process tree? [closed]
I'm looking for a tool for capturing the execution of an entire process tree, like this:
# tracetree: https://github.com/luser/tracetree , linux only, sadly
$ tracetree /bin/bash -c '/bin/sleep 1; /...
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Direction of Stack Trace in ProcMon
I am trying to understand how to interpret the stack trace in event properties of ProcMon. I know that the stack works on a last in first out basis, however the numbering of the frames in the stack ...
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Windows Error Logging (WerFault) Leaves Unkillable Suspended Process
The symptom is eerily similar to this question. However, I have no SN-DBS service installed and it seems to affect all executables ran on the machine not just a couple compiled files.
Normally, when ...
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How to identify a driver causing every exited process to become a zombie, polluting page table and active unused memory?
I have a pretty new Windows 11 Pro installation, it has about a week. I noticed that my RAM usage is constantly going up. It was concerned because procexp readouts did not match the total used RAM ...
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Excessive RAM Consumption by Wazuh-Indexer Process on Proxmox VE Agent
I've been utilizing Wazuh for several months now, with my own Wazuh server set up. I've added my Proxmox VE as an agent with the Wazuh agent, but I'm encountering some issues with it. Specifically, I'...
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What is the best way to identify what caused a CPU spike?
In Windows Task Manager History I can see that there was a CPU spike and my computer freezes.
And I can see when I sort the view on highest CPU percentage which processes take most of the CPU.
But ...
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Linux - What causes processes to block aka "disk sleep" on synchronous writes?
...as in, for example using dd to dump an ISO image to a thumb drive, or such. At the end of the transfer, the process doing the (afaik synchronous) write is left in 'disk sleep' status for several ...
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How does Process Lasso trim an applications memory?
In Lasso trim, there is an option to trim an applications memory. The "Trim Memory" function in Process Lasso is designed to reclaim and release system memory.
In a personal project of mine, ...
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How to make sure a process spawned via ssh get's terminated with the connection?
Apparently people try to keep processes they started via ssh running even when the connection is gone, see https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ssh+process+still+active+after+connection+close
So I was believing ...
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Understanding how ports work and how are they different from processes?
I've been a part of a network operations team for quite some time now and was extracting a certificate using this command:
openssl s_client -connect <IP>:<PORT> </dev/null | sed -n -e '/...
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Prevent users of the operating system from closing an active program in the background [duplicate]
I have a public computer Windows 11 is installed.
On it I have an active program on the computer that I want users to be unable to log out of.
When I say exit, I mean normal exit, through the window ...
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Unknown commands hogging all my cpu. " ./10 -c/tmp/ ..."
What command is ./10 -c/tmp/ ... ?
I have tried killing it with no luck. Other than reboot what are my options?
How could I find out what triggered it? What command was it, I need to identify what ...
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