In most Unix-like operating systems, the "ps" program displays the currently-running processes.
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Strategies for detecting daemon memory leaks
I have a system which sends an email to a user twice a day, confirming that a specific daemon is still running and doing something. This has historically run for over a year without a restart, but the code has now changed, and I need to confirm that…
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How to duplicate iStat Menus memory usage from a shell?
I'm using MacOS 11.6. I've written a small cron job that measures memory usage of a process and, if that usage exceeds a threshold, pops up a notification on screen. (The point is to remind me when a leaky process gets so big that it's time to…
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sar and top show high cpu usage, but vmstat and ps show low cpu usage. Why?
I'm diagnosing a high CPU usage event, and I found a weird difference between numbers from ps/vmstat, which show almost 0%, and sar/top, which show almost 100% (user + system):
sar 1 5
Linux 2.6.9-67.ELsmp (uxdfl712) 07/25/2020
01:48:31 PM …
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is there a way to pretty print the output of "ps" to include the "rss" memory value?
I have a python script which takes in processes in csv format and decides things based on what's running, it's name, and how much cpu time it's using. I would like to add processes that also use lots of memory to said script.
The problem, however,…
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How to connect to remote server using powershell from local . Enter-PSSession not working ( Not Related Exchange Service )
I am trying to connect to remote computer using local powershell session.
for that I am trying to use local powershell Enter-PSSession or New-PSSession comandlets as :
$session = New-PSSession -ConnectionUri…
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How to cut the result of ps command
Could you please explain this command?
and what does 48 means ?
ps -laef | cut -c 48- | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
Thanks in advance
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How to terminate a process(httpd) when its PID keeps on changing in CENTOS 7
When I tried to restart my httpd service using systemctl restart httpd
Checking the status, I found that process is dead and another process is running. so I removed it using yum erase httpd
As a precaution, I checked if the process is still running…
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How to solve memory issues in Linux
How to get details of a process that is taking RAM.
From top command i have found that Mysql is taking too much ram how can i know why Mysql is taking too much ram far from usual behavior?
Is there any commands to get more details of the process…
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