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Monitor server to see which process is reaching out to an IP [closed]

I have a Linux server that is very occasionally reaching out to a specific IP address. It's actually being blocked by pfBlockerNG, which is fine. But I'd like to know which process on the server is ...
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How can I view details for a specific process using the Process Monitor on Windows?

I want to use the Sysinterals Process Monitor to inspect a specific process on my Windows computer. Is there a way to search the running processes by the path to the executable or by PID? I tried ...
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Monitor cpu usage per process

I would like to monitor CPU usage of all processes over time. By all processes I mean being able to view each process' CPU usage separately. I'd like to see the results as a graph and I prefer Perfmon,...
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How can you view total I/O Bytes Read/Written on Windows 10?

How can you view total I/O Bytes Read/Written on Windows 10 per process? This is very easy on Windows 7 as you can see it in Task Manager if you enable those columns, but on Windows 10 task manager is ...
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Track the calls of a command

To quickly explain the goal of my question, I use Ubuntu mate with an apple keyboard. To make the keyboard working properly, I had to remap some keys using xmodmap, such as interchanging the #/@ with &...
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What does "Idle Wake Ups" indicate in the Mavericks activity monitor?

The activity monitor for Mavericks running on my 2013 MacBook Pro Retina lists a column "Idle Wake Ups" that is new to me, and Google and Apple Support Forum searches were unrevealing as to ...
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In the linux top program, what does the z option indicate

I'm trying to understand the top program better, and I don't really get the 'z' option which highlights all running processes. Wouldn't all processes in top be considered running? In what context ...
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How do I prevent kids from launching minecraft and other games?

There are students in my computer class who sit there and play minecraft all day. We're running OS X, and I'd like a find a way to kill the minecraft process as soon as its started to prevent students ...
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System Variable containing Selected File in explorer.exe

I need to get the path of a selected file in explorer.exe. I need it from something System Variable or somewhere as I can read in with a java application.
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Linux: Automatically restart 3rd party process once pegged at 100%

Is there any generic way to monitor a process and restart it automatically if it's pegged at 100% CPU for over x seconds? I'm battling some bugs in Mono's fastcgi server and while I search for a fix (...
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Finding Processes that Use GPU

I use my GPU mostly for scientific computing. I've noticed that the usage/temperature recently is still high, even when the science is suspended. I strongly suspect something is using my GPU (other ...
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Windows 7 svchost.exe (LocalSystemNetworkRestricted) reading/writing like crazy

I'm trying to understand why my Windows 7 machine is constantly reading/writing to the HDD, making everything go slow. As you can see in the screenshot, resmon reports that there is a lot of disk ...
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Best way to *instantly* tell which process is slowing down your system?

I run Procmon, ProcExp, Process Hacker, and the resource monitors of Windows 7, and while some can give me a clue about CPU and IO use, I feel like there's a more integrated solution out there that ...
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Is there a version of Process Monitor that runs on Windows 2000?

I have a problem I'm trying to track down on a Windows 2000 machine. I downloaded SysInternals Process Monitor (ProcMon.exe) but it seems to need Windows XP SP2 or higher. I've seen traffic that ...
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How can you determine when a background task was started?

When surveying the output of jobs in bash, you'll often get a list like the following: [root@csx-tzg-sac-01 ~]# jobs [2] Running ( sleep 600 && ls -lh ~ossadmin/*.iso ) &...
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