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Signals vs. polling for I/O (uses very simple example of I/O)
I understand how hardware interrupts work. I have a basic question about I/O, and will use keyboard and characters from key presses as the context for the question.
In a general sense, do processes ...
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Stop disk activity of a process without killing the process
Is there a technique or tool that can be used to stop a running process from writing to a drive, but not kill the process.
If I have more level of control in that, like selecting which drives the ...
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Find out which files a process is writing to
I have this very annoying problem with Firefox for months where its CPU usage jumps to over 24% after a while when idle. Any official troubleshooting has lead to no positive results (tried to reset, ...
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CPU Burst or I/O Burst
If a process that currently is being executed faces an I/O Burst, will the next available process gain the CPU burst or will the processor wait until the I/O Burst of the first process finishes to ...
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How to redirect file I/O operations of a process to memory or a different file?
Let's say I have a file named file.txt and a running process with PID 12345 which sometimes reads and sometimes writes to that file.
Is there any way I can fool the process with PID 12345 to read or ...
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Dedicate IO priority to a process [duplicate]
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How to change I/O priority of a process or thread in Win7?
On Windows (7 in this case) it's possible to dedicate CPU priority to a process to make it go faster. In most cases ...
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How to change I/O priority of a process or thread in Win7?
Process Explorer is able to show the effective IO priority of a given thread, but not change it. Seeing as IO priority support is a comparatively new feature, most programs don't set their own IO ...
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Linux: Is there something similar to "top" for I/O?
My disk often is utilized, but top (and htop, a custom replacement) show nothing suspicious.
Is there a way to sort processes by I/O (more specific: disk) utilization?
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Found out using iotop ...
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How do I find out what processes are accessing the hard disk in a GNU/Linux-based system?
I'm looking for the equivalent to top for disk access, so I can tell which process(es) are currently reading and/or writing to disk. I'm currently using Ubuntu, but I imagine there's a standard tool ...
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